Language and Interpretation in Psychoanalysis

By Marshall Edelson

Book Overview

Consider a poem as the literary critic reads it; consider the language of an analysand as the psychoanalyst hears it. The tasks of the professionals are similar: to interpret the linguistic, symbolic data at hand. In Language and Interpretation in Psychoanalysis, Marshall Edelson explores the linguistics of Chomsky, showing the congruence between Chomsky and Freud, and comparing linguistic interpretations in the psychoanalytic situation with interpretations of a Bach prelude and Wallace Stevens's poem "The Snow Man."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226184331
• ISBN13: 9780226184333
• Release Date: August 1984
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"