Desire

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In this chapter I shall try to explain desire according to psychoanalysis (here primarily Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan), and why desire is also a concept for that which drives language, literature, and the reader. I hope to show what it means to focus on the dynamics of desire when analysing not only the story, but also the composition and implied reader of the text.
Translated title of the contributionBegær
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLiterature : An Introduction to Theory and Analysis
EditorsMads Rosendahl Thomsen, Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, Lis Møller, Dan Ringgaard, Lilian Munk Rösing, Peter Simonsen
Place of PublicationLondon/New York
PublisherBloomsbury Academic
Publication date2017
Chapter19
ISBN (Print)9781474271974 , 9781474271967
Publication statusPublished - 2017

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