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pt. 1 - Psychoanalytic self psychology - Kohut's psychology of the self, empathy, and the reading process -- - pt. 2 - Tragic man - Narcissistic vulnerability and rage in Dostoevsky's Notes from underground -- - Insect transformation as a narcissistic metaphor in Kafka's Metamorphosis -- - Empathy and self-validation in Bellow's Seize the day -- - Storytelling as attempted self-rescue in Conrad's "Secret sharer" and "Heart of darkness" -- - Defensive aestheticism and self-dissolution : the demise of the artist in Mann's Death in Venice -- - pt. 3 - Tragic woman - The evasion of narcissistic anxieties in Lessing's Summer before the dark -- - Self-dispersal and self-assemblage : the artistic reconstitution of the broken self in Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway -- - Comic storytelling as escape and narcissistic self-expression in Atwood's Lady oracle -- - In conclusion - Empathic reading and the critic/reader
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-196) and index
