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title	:	The Empathic Reader : A Study of the Narcissistic Character and the Drama of the Self
author	:	Bouson, J. Brooks.
publisher	:	University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0870236784
print isbn13	:	9780870236785
ebook isbn13	:	9780585083155
language	:	English
subject	Fiction--Psychological aspects, Kohut, Heinz, Reader-response criticism, Narcissism in literature, Self in literature, Self psychology, Empathy in literature, Authors and readers, Books and reading.
publication date	:	1989
lcc	:	PN3352.P7B68 1989eb
ddc	:	808.3
subject	:	Fiction--Psychological aspects, Kohut, Heinz, Reader-response criticism, Narcissism in literature, Self in literature, Self psychology, Empathy in literature, Authors and readers, Books and reading.

Page iii The Empathic Reader A Study of the Narcissistic Character and the Drama of the Self J. Brooks Bouson The University of Massachusetts Press Amherst

Page iv Copyright 1989 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 89-4695 ISBN 0-87023-678-4 Set in Sabon at Keystone Typesetting Printed and bound by Thomson Shore Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bouson, J. Brooks. The empathic reader : a study of the narcissistic character and the drama of the self / J. Brooks Bouson. p. cm. Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 0-87023-678-4 (alk. paper) 1. FictionPsychological aspects. 2. Kohut, HeinzCriticism and interpretation. 3. Narcissism in literature. 4. Self in literature. 5. Self psychology. 6. Empathy in literature. 7. Authors and readers. 8. Books and reading. I. Title. PN3352.P7B68 1989 809.3'9353dc1989-4695 CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.

Page v To the memory of my father

Page vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introductory Remarks 3 Part I Psychoanalytic Self Psychology 1 Kohut's Psychology of the Self, Empathy, and the Reading Process 11 Part II Tragic Man 2 Narcissistic Vulnerability and Rage in Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground 33 3 Insect Transformation as a Narcissistic Metaphor in Kafka's Metamorphosis 51 4 Empathy and Self-Validation in Bellow's Seize the Day 64 5 Storytelling as Attempted Self-Rescue in Conrad's "Secret Sharer" and "Heart of Darkness" 82

Page viii 6 Defensive Aestheticism and Self-Dissolution: The Demise of the Artist in Mann's Death in Venice 105 Part III Tragic Woman 7 The Evasion of Narcissistic Anxieties in Lessing's Summer Before the Dark 121 8 Self-Dispersal and Self-Assemblage: The Artistic Reconstitution of the Broken Self in Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway 138 9 Comic Storytelling as Escape and Narcissistic Self-Expression in Atwood's Lady Oracle 154 In Conclusion Empathic Reading and the Critic/Reader 169 Notes 173 Works Cited 183 Index 197

Page ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am grateful to those people who, in encouraging me to pursue this project, have provided me with the kind of mirroring approval that has sustained me during many a long and sometimes lonely hour of reading, research, and writing. In particular, I want to thank Meredith Anthony, Yohma Gray, Agnes Donohue, and Patrick Casey. And I am indebted to those people who read portions of the manuscript and helped me, through their questions and comments, to clarify and refine my ideas. They include psychoanalyst Peter Barglow, Frank Cloffi, Deborah Gutschera, Tony LaBranche, Lynne Layton, Bernard McElroy, Matt Naglich, and Barbara Schapiro. And I owe a special debt of gratitude to Bernard Paris and Margret Schaefer for their comments on the entire manuscript and to psychoanalyst Roy Grinker, Jr., for his patient and painstaking reading and rereading of the introductory chapter on Kohut, for his insightful comments on my literary application of Kohut, and for his enduring belief in my work.

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