| Uniform title | Comme des fous. English |
| Contents |
The embryo's "I wish" -- Psychotherapy of Uncle Toby's war traumas and the reading of a sermon on perversion -- Transgenerational transmission of trauma: in praise of bipolarity -- Social unrest in Strasburg -- Confinement -- Epitaph -- Journey to France -- The politics of love and slavery -- No to perversion. |
| Abstract |
"This unique book examines the psychoanalysis of madness and trauma through an extended discussion of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the provocative eighteenth-century novel by Laurence Sterne. Fran̐ucoise Davoine explores the entire novel - each of her chapters corresponding to a Volume of the novel - viewing it through a psychoanalytic lens: the monologue by Tristram's embryo in the opening chapter, the war traumas of Captain Toby and Corporal Trim, and several key themes including confinement, love and history. In parallel to her own analytic comments on these inventions, Fran̐ucoise Davoine follows the writing the novel itself, keeping the reader constantly aware that Sterne's endeavour is a race against death - his own. Davoine points out that time acts as a major character in the novel, constantly upsetting chronology, and bringing about the same impasses as the psychoanalysis of madness and trauma does. The book presents Shandean wit as a valuable tool in therapeutic work. Shandean Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and to academics and students engaged in psychoanalytic studies, literary studies and trauma-related studies"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Davoine, Fran̐ucoise. Shandean psychoanalysis Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 9781003224907 |
| LCCN | 2022035789 |
| ISBN | 9781032125121 |
| ISBN | 9781032125091 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1032125098 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1032125128 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
