From Fiction to Psychoanalysis

How can reading literary fiction shed light on the way we speak ourselves within psychoanalysis? Rather than offering psychoanalytic insights into literature, Rosemary Rizq, a practicing psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, explores what literary fiction can bring to psychoanalysis.

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Rosemary Rizq is a psychologist chartered with the British Psychological Society, an HCPC-registered counselling psychologist and a UKCP-accredited psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She has worked extensively in the NHS as a psychologist and psychotherapist, authoring numerous papers on organizational dynamics as well as on psychotherapeutic training and clinical practice. She is currently professor of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the University of Roehampton, with a part-time private practice in West London. She is co-editor of The Industrialisation of Care, published by PCCS Books in 2019.

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Introduction: What do we know? 1. Copying, Cloning, and Creativity: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go 2. The Wager of Faith in Fiction and Psychoanalysis: Colm Tóibín's The Testament of Mary 3. Psychoanalysis and Ways of Reading: Henry James's The Figure in the Carpet 4. Epistemologues of the Particular: Tessa Hadley's An Abduction 5. On Food, Faith, and Psychoanalysis: Isak Dinesen's Babette's Feast 6. 'Familiar Artifiice': Alice Munro's The Moons of Jupiter