Thomas De Quincey and the Cognitive Unconscious
Gebonden Engels 2015 9781137501073Samenvatting
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.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
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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