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Why are psychoanalysts fascinated with literature and other arts? And why do so many novels, plays, films, and television series feature therapy sessions? Transferences investigates the interdisciplinary attraction between psychoanalysis and the arts by exploring the therapeutic relationship as a recurring figure in psychoanalytic discourse, literature, theater, and television. In addition to close readings of psychoanalytic and critical texts, the book presents a new approach to examining psychoanalytic themes and formal devices in texts like Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint, J. M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K, Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, Peter Shaffer’s Equus, and the HBO series In Treatment. Transferences argues that psychoanalysts as well as writers and other artists are fascinated by the therapeutic relationship because it provides a unique site to negotiate the narrative and artistic underpinnings of psychoanalysis and reflect and reinvent the aesthetic and poetic potentiality of art.

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Maren Scheurer has written a fascinating study of the central role of transference in the complex interactions among psychoanalysis, literature, theater, and television. She succeeds admirably in her analysis of literary and filmic representations of psychoanalysis. She writes authoritatively, yet she is never authoritarian or dogmatic. Transference is a pioneering study of the relationship between psychoanalysis and the arts. * Jeffrey Berman, Distinguished Teaching Professor of English, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA *

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Maren Scheurer is a Researcher and Lecturer in Comparative Literature and English Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. She is executive co-editor, with Aimee Pozorski, of Philip Roth Studies.

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