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The Literary Text as Talking Cure: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Restlessness

Hilde Staels

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This essay relies on the psychoanalytic literary theories of Peter Brooks and Julia Kristeva to examine the transferential relationship between the analysand-narrator and the analyst-narratee in the novel Restlessness. Van Herk uses typical conventions of the psychoanalytic talking cure to unsettle the common reader's desire for linearity and final meaning.

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Key concepts: Psychoanalytic theory, Interpretation (philosophy), Psychoanalysis, Meaning (existential), Literature, Psychology, Philosophy, Art