Poststructuralist psychoanalysis
Harold Bloom: Freudian Revisionism
•Works: Agon (1983), A Map of Misreading (1975) and The Anxiety of Influence (1984)
•Bloom says that all poets start their career with an anxiety. This anxiety is a father –threat. : that older, earlier poets- symbolize father- have already done all there is to be done.
•Unconscious threat of the father-poet.
•Misreading is thus a psychic defence against the father.
•There are 6 revisionary modes through which the father-poet is subsumed amd negotiated.
1.Clinamen- irony used by the younger poet to show that the father-poet was accurate up to a point, but then went wrong.
2.Tessera: completion. Younger poet extends the precursor poem showing that the older poet did not go far enough.
3. Kenosis: a break. Acknowledges the influence of the precursor but decides that he cannot repeat. Therefore, takes a break away from the older poet.
4. Daemonization: younger poet suggests that there is a hidden power in precursor poem which belongs to him. He, then accepts the hidden power of the precursor poem and reduces the intensity or greatness of the earlier one.
5. Askesis: where the younger poet curtails the poem’s power and that of the precursor’s.
6. Apophrades: return of the dead. The younger poet revisits and rewrites the older poem in such an effective way that when we read the older poem we imagine it to be written by the younger poet.
Schizoanalysis: Deleuze and Guattari
Deleuze and Guattari, in their work- Anti-Oedipus (1983) begin by looking at the structure of desire.
In 1980s and 90s they produced some works by combining psychoanalysis and Poststructuralism and developed what they called Schizoanalysis
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