Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism

"'Benjamin H. Ogden conducts an exciting and courageous intellectual experiment. Nine profound and ingenious chapters explore new ways of fostering the dialogue between literature and psychoanalysis, capturing the vitality of both. What I find so fascinating is Ogden's search for a new form of writing between disciplines, which leads him to the place ""where we are most of the time"". It is from and within this space, this shared point of origin that Ogden secures his position as a truly remarkable independent thinker and writer. He presents chapters that are nine different boxes he has snapped shut. To my mind, he has done just that and much more besides. Each box is a veritable treasure trove of originality and inspiration.’-Antonino Ferro ""Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Between Literature and Mind is a magnificent contribution to the renewal of psychoanalytic literary criticism. There is no point any longer in applying stereotyped psychoanalytic knowledge to the literary text, but rather in listening respectfully and refined by the experience of analysis, on the one hand, and questioning the very practice of analysis in the light of the aesthetic experience in art, on the other. Benjamin Ogden demonstrates originality in thinking, a beautiful style in writing and an uncommon capacity to engage in an alive conversation with the reader at the frontiers of two exciting worlds. I’d recommend this book both to scholars of the humanities and to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists interested in making their practice of care increasingly vital and their theoretical tools more sophisticated.""-Giuseppe Civitarese, member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society; author of Sublime Subjects: Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis. 'Benjamin H. Ogden conducts an exciting and courageous intellectual experiment. Nine profound and ingenious chapters explore new ways of fostering the dialogue between literature and psychoanalysis, capturing the vitality of both. What I find so fascinating is Ogden's search for a new form of writing between disciplines, which leads him to the place ""where we are most of the time"". It is from and within this space, this shared point of origin that Ogden secures his position as a truly remarkable independent thinker and writer. He presents chapters that are nine different boxes he has snapped shut. To my mind, he has done just that and much more besides. Each box is a veritable treasure trove of originality and inspiration.’-Antonino Ferro ""Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Between Literature and Mind is a magnificent contribution to the renewal of psychoanalytic literary criticism. There is no point any longer in applying stereotyped psychoanalytic knowledge to the literary text, but rather in listening respectfully and refined by the experience of analysis, on the one hand, and questioning the very practice of analysis in the light of the aesthetic experience in art, on the other. Benjamin Ogden demonstrates originality in thinking, a beautiful style in writing and an uncommon capacity to engage in an alive conversation with the reader at the frontiers of two exciting worlds. I’d recommend this book both to scholars of the humanities and to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists interested in making their practice of care increasingly vital and their theoretical tools more sophisticated.""-Giuseppe Civitarese, member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society; author of Sublime Subjects: Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis."