The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers

The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers is a fascinating and informative psychological survey of women and the literature they create, especially as reflected by the lives and work of such luminaries as Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Anais Nin, Sylvia Plath, and Edith Sitwell. The reader is treated to such issues as compulsion versus reparation, developmental mourning and creative-process reparation, creative women and the "internal father," and the "demon-lover" theme as literary myth and psychodynamic complex. A highly recommended addition to women's studies, literary studies, and psychological studies supplemental reading lists, "The Compulsion to Create" is original, revealing, insightful, challenging, at times iconoclastic, and always entertaining.

Author: Susan Kavaler-Adler
Publisher: Ori Academic Press
Published: 07/10/2013
Pages: 446
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780984870004
ISBN10: 0984870008
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | General
- Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature