The Sensitive Son and the Feminine Ideal in Literature Writers from Rousseau to Roth /

• Main Author: Tuman, Myron (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Comparative literature.; Literature-History and criticism.; Philosophy of mind.; Cognitive psychology.; Comparative Literature.; Literary History.; Philosophy of Mind.; Cognitive Psychology.

This book considers major male writers from the last three centuries whose relation to a strong, often distant woman-one sometimes modeled on their own mother-forms the romantic core of their greatest narratives. Myron Tuman explores the theory that there is an underlying psychological type, the sen...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction - Hector's Helmet
• Chapter 2 Getting Started - Roth, Proust, Freud, and Rousseau
• Chapter 3 The Adoring Son in Love, 1 - Rousseau
• Chapter 4 Another Stolen Ribbon - Mozart and Kierkegaard
• Chapter 5 The Sorrows of a Young Son - Goethe
• Chapter 6 Pygmalion in Love - Bernard Shaw
• Chapter 7 The Narcissist Son - Freud and da Vinci
• Chapter 8 The Masochist Son - Sacher-Masoch
• Chapter 9 The Uneasy Son - F. Scott Fitzgerald and D. H. Lawrence
• Chapter 10 The Bachelor Son - Stendhal and Schopenhauer
• Chapter 11 The Sensitive Son's Midlife Crisis - Hazlitt and Rousseau
• Chapter 12 The Dutiful Son - Flaubert
• Chapter 13 The Adoring Son in Love, 2 - Turgenev
• Chapter 14 The Sensitive Son in Old Age - Rousseau.