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Article: The third wound: Malcolm Bowie, Peter Brooks, and the myth of Actaeon
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- Comparative Literature
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- January 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Comparative Literature Winter 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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In periods of decline, when the substance of history is exhausted, unable to guarantee even the zoological place of the species, a dull, tacit expectation has adhered to myth-making strength. Theology peters out-it yields to theognosis; people no longer want to know about gods: they want to see them.
Ernst Junger, Eumeswil
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE FUTURE OF THEORY. By Malcolm Bowie. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993. BODY WORK: OBJECTS OF DESIRE IN MODERN NARRATIVE. By Peter Brooks. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND STORYTELLING. By Peter Brooks. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.
In an essay from 1917 entitled "A Difficulty in the Path of Psychoanalysis" (Eine Schwierigkeit ...