Imagining Characters: Six Conversations about Women Writers
Book Details
- Publisher : Vintage
- Published : 1996
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 304
- Category :
Reprinting - Category 2 :
Culture and Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 6327
- ISBN 13 : 9780099591214
- ISBN 10 : 0099591219
Also by Ignes Sodre
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Analysts and novelists are both concerned with our innermost thoughts and feelings. Does their reading of fiction differ or overlap? In this book, British novelist A.S. Byatt meets Ignes Sodre, a Brazilian psychoanalyst, to discuss six great novels by six female novelists: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte's Villette, Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, The Professor's House by Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch's An Unofficial Rose and Beloved by Toni Morrison. As they explore the subtleties of each book, they reveal that a writer's creativity is linked not only to structures of the family and society, but to the mysteries of dreams, fantasy and metaphor.
About the Author(s)
Ignes Sodre was born in Brazil, where she qualified as a clinical psychologist before coming to London in 1969 to train at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis. She is a Fellow and a Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She has taught extensively in London and abroad, and was the first visiting professorial Fellow in Psychoanalysis at Birkbeck College. She has published many papers on psychoanalysis and on literature; as well as two books.
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