Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Part I. Speaking Pain: Women, Psychoanalysis, and Writing 1. The Healing Effects of Writing about Pain: Literature and Psychoanalysis 2. Violating the Sanctuary/Asylum: Freudian Treatment of Hysteria in "Dora" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" 3. Breaking the Code of Silence: Ideology and Women's Confessional Poetry 4. Fathering Daughters: Oedipal Rage and Aggression in Women's Writing Part II. Soul-making: Conflict and the Construction of Identity 5. Carving the Mask of Language: Self and Otherness in Dramatic Monologues 6. Giotto's Invisible Sheep: Lacanian Mirroring and Modeling in Walcott's Another Life 7. Rescuing Psyche: Keats's Containment of the Beloved but Fading Woman in the "Ode to Psyche" 8. God Don't Like Ugly: Michael S. Harper's Soul-Making Music 9. Kenyon's Melancholic Vision in "Let Evening Come" Part III. Healing Pain: Acts of Therapeutic Writing 10. Using the Psychoanalytic Process in Creative Writing Classes 11. Rewriting the Subject: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Creative Writing and Composition Pedagogy 12. "To Bedlam and Almost All the Way Back": The Image and Function of the Institution in Confessional Poetry 13. Asylum: A Personal Essay 14. Signifying Pain: Recovery and Beyond Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Judith Harris is Assistant Professor of English at George Washington University. She is the author of Atonement: Poems.