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En psykoanalytisk studie över affektens och överföringens betydelse vid tolkning och läsning av skönlitteratur
AffektteoriSpråkpsykologiöverföringLitteraturpsykologiLitteraturkritikPsykoanalysJacquesLacanPsychologyPsykologiSocial Sciences
The aim of this study is to explore the fundaments of all psychoanalytic interpretative models, and especially the psychoanalytic literary criticism. Drawing from different fields as affect theory, neuropsychology and Lacan's structural psychoanalysis, strong evidence is found that language in itself contains and transmits affects.The empiric study indicates that different readers of a text, regardless of their interpretation of the text, show similar changes in mood as a function of the text. This seems to be possible as an effect of the separation of the sign between the signifier and the signification. And this supports that the signifier has some kind of direct access to the affects. This is due to the fact that the signifier belongs to the imaginary protolinguistic level while the signification belongs to the symbolic and linguistic level of a higher order. The right hemisphere of the brain processes the rhetorical or holistic aspects of language while the left processes in an analytical manner. This indicates that all serious psychoanalytical literature criticism pivots in an understanding of the nature of the transference, since it is in the transference that the signifier and the signification converge.