Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud explores how the riddle becomes a figure for reading and writing in early German Romanticism and how this model then enables Sigmund Freud's approach to the psyche. It traces a...
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Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud explores how the riddle becomes a figure for reading and writing in early German Romanticism and how this model then enables Sigmund Freud's approach to the psyche. It traces a migration of ideas from literature to psychoanalysis and argues that the relationship between them must be situated at the methodological level. Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translations and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I Riddle and Obscurity in Early Romanticism -- 1 From Irritant to Ideal: The Transvaluation of Riddle -- 2 The Closed Circle of Criticism -- 3 Alethic Aesthetics: Hegel's Riddle of the Symbol -- 4 Wordplay and Identity in Tieck's Early Prose -- II Reading the Psyche: The Human Riddle -- 5 The Inaugural Gesture of Psychoanalysis -- 6 The Joke and Its Other: Toward a Freudian Concept of Riddle -- 7 The Riddle as Freud's Textual Model -- 8 Trauma and the Other Oedipus Complex -- Notes -- Bibliography.
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READING RIDDLES; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Translations and Abbreviations; Introduction; I. Riddle and Obscurity in Early Romanticism; 1. From Irritant to Ideal: The Transvaluation of Riddle; 2. The Closed Circle of Criticism; 3. Alethic Aesthetics: Hegel's Riddle of the Symbol; 4. Wordplay and Identity in Tieck's Early Prose; II. Reading the Psyche: The Human Riddle; 5. The Inaugural Gesture of Psychoanalysis; 6. The Joke and Its Other: Toward a Freudian Concept of Riddle; 7. The Riddle as Freud's Textual Model; 8. Trauma and the Other Oedipus Complex; Notes; Bibliography; Index