Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-236)
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Part I: Theory: psychoanalytic method and the study of literatureIntroduction -- Psychoanalysis and the interpretation of the text -- Repression, the unconscious, and the structure of the literary work -- The ambiguity of language -- Literature and psychopathology -- Part II: Demonstration: Dostoevsky's The idiot -- "A kind of unnatural fear ..." -- Prince Christ -- The saintly whore -- "Whom I love I chastise" -- The scene on the staircase: "A weapon made to a special pattern" -- Fathers and children -- The epileptic mode of being -- Philosophical rebellion -- Religious submission -- The compulsion to repeat -- Ambivalence and the pre-oedipal mother -- The end of interpretation.
