Session Details

Friday, 07 January

332. Dickens and Psychoanalysis

3:30–4:45 p.m., Plaza III, J. W. Marriott

Program arranged by the Dickens Society and the American Psychoanalytic Association

Presiding: John O. Jordan, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz

1. “The First Gift: Freud, David Copperfield, and the Sisters Bernays,” Peter L. Rudnytsky, Univ. of Florida

2. “Dickens and Unconscious Agency: From Victorian Psychology to Contemporary Trauma Theory,” Jill L. Matus, Univ. of Toronto

3. “‘Wounded by Mystery’: Dickens and the Shadow of the Object,” Kay R. Young, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

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