Author: Sussman, Henry
Title: Psyche and Text: The Sublime and the Grandiose in Literature, Psychopathology, and Culture
Description: Albany, State University of New York, (1993). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xiii,233 pp.. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: On Character; Characterization in 'Antigone' and 'Othello'; Grandiosity and the Romantic Sublime; Object-Relations Theory: Otto Kernberg; Heinz Kohut; Alice Miller; Robert Musil 'The Man without Qualities': Setting; 'The Man without Qualities': An Inter"personal" Reading; 'The Man without Qualities': Friendship & Persistent Envy: 'The Man without Qualities': Idealization and Repression: 'The Man without Qualities': Eroticism & Critical Detachment; 'The Man without Qualities': An Early "Borderline Character"; 'The Man without Qualities': Sibling Mirroring; Borderlinity and Contemporary Culture: 'The Silence of the Lambs'; Conclusion.

Keywords: Object-Relations Theory, Literary criticism, Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, The Sublime, The Grandiose, Critical theory, Musil, Robert,