Thomas De Quincey and the Cognitive Unconscious

Gebonden Engels 2015 9781137501073
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This book examines Thomas De Quincey's notion of the unconscious in the light of modern cognitive science and nineteenth-century science. It challenges Freudian theories as the default methodology in order to understand De Quincey's oeuvre and the unconscious in literature more generally.

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ISBN13:9781137501073
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

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List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I: LANGUAGE
1. The Need for Neologisms and the Emergence of Subconscious
2. De Quincey ' 's Subconscious and the Cognitive Unconscious
3. Style and the Revelatory Power of Language
PART II: BODY AND BRAIN
4. The Embodied Unconscious in Animal Magnetism and Physiology
5. Mesmeric and Opium-Induced States of Mind
6. The Brain-Mind in the Confessions, Literary Criticism, and Suspiria
Epilogue
Appendix A
Appendix B
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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