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Obscenity, Psychoanalysis and Literature: Lawrence and Joyce on Trial

Author(s) : William Simms

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"This bold and provocative new book draws on psychoanalysis to call into doubt many of the fundamental and common-sense assumptions about how censorship works and what it is for. William Simms contests standard accounts of these trials as straightforwardly repressive or enlightened. Instead, he shows how the outcome of the trials was much less important than the modes of desire and enjoyment that the trials articulated, and the mechanisms exercised by literary criticism and other discourses to regulate desire and enjoyment. Obscenity, Psychoanalysis and Literature is a work of great fluency and genuine invention." - Peter Buse, Dean of the School of the Arts at the University of Liverpool.