Secret Sharers Av Jennifer Ithaca College Spitzer

<p><i>Secret Sharers </i>traces a genealogy of secret sharing between literary modernism and psychoanalysis, focusing on the productive entanglements and intense competitive rivalries that helped shape Anglo-American modernism as a field. As Jennifer Spitzer reveals, such rivalries played out in explicit criticism, inventive misreadings, and revisions of Freudian forms¿from D. H. Lawrence¿s re-descriptions of the unconscious to Vladimir Nabokov¿s parodies of the psychoanalytic case study. While some modernists engaged directly with Freud and Freudian psychoanalysis with unmistakable rivalry and critique, others wrestled in more complex ways with Freud¿s legacy. The key protagonists of this study¿D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, W. H. Auden, and Vladimir Nabokov¿are noteworthy for the way they engaged with, popularized, and revised the terms of Freudian psychoanalysis, while also struggling with it as an encroaching discourse. Modernists read psychoanalysis, misread psychoanalysis, and s