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The Literary Text as Talking Cure: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Restlessness
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 44, Number 2, June 2011
- pp. 53-66
- 10.1353/mos.2011.a440542
- Article
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This essay relies on the psychoanalytic literary theories of Peter Brooks and Julia Kristeva to examine the transferential relationship between the analysand-narrator and the analyst-narratee in the novel Restlessness. Van Herk uses typical conventions of the psychoanalytic talking cure to unsettle the common reader's desire for linearity and final meaning.