Psychology in the Fiction of Henry James: Memory, Emotions, and Empathy

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
	Abbreviations of Works by Henry James
	Abbreviations of Works by William James
	Abbreviations of Works by Freud
Introduction
	Theoretical Works: Memory, Emotions, and Empathy
	Practice in Reading Fiction
Chapter 1: Memory and Emotions in Early Psychology and Recent Neuroscience
	Consciousness as a Memory System
	Consciousness as Emotion
	Emotion as the Body’s Reaction
	Emotion and Feeling
	Primordial Emotion and Personal Feeling
	Notes
Chapter 2: The History of Surplus Emotions and Henry James’s Ghost
	Henry James’s Ghosts as Psychology
	Ghosts as the Surplus: Kant’s Concept of the Sublime
	Ghosts as Fringes in the Psychology of William James
	Freud’s Uncanny and Lacan’s Antigone: How to Deal With Ghosts
	Wo Es War, Soll Ich Werden: The Surplus of the Primal Father
	Lacan’s the Sublime Object: Surplus Jouissance
	Toward Empathy
	Notes
Chapter 3: Empathy and Free Indirect Discourse
	The Cognitive Empathy of William James
	The Unconscious as Emotional Contagion
	Empathy in Recent Neuroscience
	Speech as Empathy
	Reading the Narrative: The As-If Mode
	Free Indirect Discourse
	Notes
Chapter 4: Emotion and Feeling in The Portrait of a Lady: Why Rome?
	Critical Interest in William’s Ghost
	Ignorance in Her Knowledge: Emotion, Feeling, and Thinking
	Learning as Repetition
	Why Rome?
	Why Rome Immediately?
	Notes
Chapter 5: “Goblin” Speech and Empathy in The Turn of the Screw
	The Remains of Criticisms
	Function of Prologue in the Narrative Frame
	“Goblin” Speech and Empathy
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 6: The Ambassadors: The Remembered Present in the Circuitous Paths
	Freud’s Memory Traces in the Process of Cognition
	Transformation Through Circuitous Paths
	The Sublime and “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”
	One’s Manner of Living as a Style of Writing
	Conclusion
Chapter 7: Love as Dissimulation in “The Beast in the Jungle”
	Beyond Sedwick’s a and Bersani’s “Infinities”
	The Play of Signifiers as Act of Love
	Beast as The Knowledge
	Notes
References
Index
About the Author