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The Mutilating God : Authorship and Authority in the Narrative of Conversion
author
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Peters, Gerald.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870238914
print isbn13
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9780870238918
ebook isbn13
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9780585184715
language
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English
subject
Narration (Rhetoric)--Psychological aspects, Autobiography--Authorship, Conversion in literature, Identity (Psychology) in literature, Authority in literature, Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
publication date
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1993
lcc
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PN212.P48 1993eb
ddc
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809/.93592
subject
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Narration (Rhetoric)--Psychological aspects, Autobiography--Authorship, Conversion in literature, Identity (Psychology) in literature, Authority in literature, Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
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The Mutilating God
Authorship and Authority in the Narrative of Conversion
Gerald Peters
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Copyright 1993 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 93-22151 ISBN 0-87023-891-4 Designed by Susan Bishop Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Peters, Gerald, 1952 The mutilating God : authorship and authority in the narrative of conversion / Gerald Peters.
p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87023-891-4 (alk. paper) 1. Narration (Rhetoric)- Psychological aspects. 2. Autobiography-Authorship. 3. Conversion in literature. 4. Identity (Psychology) in literature. 5. Authority in literature. 6. Literature, Modern - History and criticism. 1. Title. PN212.P48 1993 809'.93592 -dc20 93-22151
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
This book is published with the support and cooperation of the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
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For my parents
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
Part I. Authorizing Inscriptions: Prefiguring the Freudian Text
23
1. The Hieroglyphic Phase
25
2. The Hieratic Phase
35
3. The Demotic Phase
44
4. Conversion and the Symbolic Order
51
Part II. A Matter of Life and Death in the Psyche: Incorporating the Freudian Paradigm
63
5. Authorizing the Self in Joyce's Portrait
65
6. Freud's "Magic Slate" and Stephen Dedalus's Aesthetic
77
7. The Mirror of the Text: Rilke's "Other Self"
87
8. Rilke's God
100
Part III. From Elder Son to Big Brother: The Death of the Freudian Subject in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
117
9. The Vicissitudes of an "Instinct" in the Conversion of Paul
119
10. Inside the Writing Machine: The Diary of Winston Smith
128
11. Reforming Desire
137
12. Unified Self/"Docile Body"
147
Part IV. Conclusions
155
13. Epitome: The Dream of Salvation
157
14. Epilogue: Kafka's "Nightmare"
160
Works Consulted
167
Author Index
177
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Initial research for this book was facilitated by a fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The final process of revision and rewriting was expedited by a University of Southern Maine Summer Faculty Fellowship. A short section in Chapter 6 first appeared in an article in The Maine Scholar 2 (Autumn 1989). An earlier version of Chapter 7 originally appeared in MOSAIC 25, no. 1 (Winter 1992).
I wish to thank Michael Palencia-Roth for his encouragement and insightful criticism throughout the process of writing this work. More than anyone I know, Michael has understood the importance of maintaining a personal investment in the often rarefied activity of scholarship. I am also grateful to F. C. McGrath for his careful reading of the manuscript when it was nearly completed and for the two afternoon fishing expeditions from which I returned richer in helpful suggestions for revision than in fish.
I thank my children, Sarah, Katherine, Michael, and Ryan, for bringing such joy and meaning to my life. I owe my deepest gratitude and appreciation to my friend and partner, Anita, without whom this book could not have been written.
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