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Occult Speculations

Figuration, Literary Speculation, Hypothesis and the Absent ‘Object’ of Analysis; Poe’s ‘Eureka’ and Freud’s ‘Beyond The Pleasure Principle’

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In the following pages I wish to discuss the use and direction of applied psychoanalysis, one in which its techniques generate an interpretation but its concepts are re-integrated within the texts analysed.

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  1. Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, edited by Lionel Trilling and Simon Marcus (London: Penguin, 1977) p. 510.

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  2. Peter Gay, Freud, Jews and other Germans (Oxford University Press, 1978) p. 53.

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Bloom, C. (1988). Occult Speculations. In: Reading Poe Reading Freud. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19300-4_4

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