Amnesiac Passages: Melville’s Pierre, Blanchot and the Question of Psychoanalytic Reading

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Published: May 1, 2010
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/syn.16493
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Herman Melville Pierre Maurice Blanchot psychoanalysis reading
Josh Cohen
Goldsmiths University
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Author Biography
Josh Cohen, Goldsmiths University

Josh Cohen is Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths University of London and a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is the author of Spectacular Allegories: Postmodern American Writing and the Politics of Seeing (Pluto Press, 1998), Interrupting Auschwitz: Art, Religion, Philosophy (Continuum, 2003), and How to Read Freud (W.W. Norton, 2005), as well as numerous articles on modern literature, aesthetic theory and psychoanalysis.

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