Freud in Oz : at the intersections of psychoanalysis and children's literature /

Children's literature has spent decades on the psychiatrist's couch, submitting to psychoanalysis by scores of scholars and popular writers alike. Freud in Oz turns the tables, suggesting that psychoanalysts owe a significant and largely unacknowledged debt to books ostensibly written for...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Kidd, Kenneth B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: reopening the case of Peter Pan
  • Kids, fairy tales, and the uses of enchantment
  • Child analysis, play, and the golden age of Pooh
  • Three case histories: Alice, Peter Pan, and OZ
  • Maurice Sendak and picturebook psychology
  • "A case history of us all": the adolescent novel before and after Salinger
  • T is for trauma: the children's literature of atrocity.