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Explore Jacques Riviere's pioneering approach to literary criticism in this Routledge publication that bridges psychoanalysis and aesthetic theory. Riviere rejected rigid pedagogical methods, instead championing emotional and intuitive engagement with art as the highest form of intellectual understanding. This work examines how taste and affective knowledge surpass mere analytical intelligence, offering profound insights into the relationship between Freud's psychoanalytic thought and the cultural reconstruction of early 20th-century Europe through Proust's literary vision. The density of Riviere's philosophical arguments and the complexity of his moral and spiritual perspectives provide readers with a sophisticated exploration of how emotional receptivity shapes critical interpretation and cultural understanding.

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Focuses on Jacques Riviere's revolutionary method of accepting art through emotional and intuitive understanding rather than traditional pedagogy.

Examines the intersection of Freud's psychoanalytic theory with European cultural reconstruction and literary modernism.

Explores how affective knowledge and taste function as superior forms of intellectual engagement compared to raw analytical reasoning.

Published by Routledge, offering scholarly depth suitable for students and scholars of literary criticism and psychoanalysis.

Addresses the complex philosophical relationship between Proust's literature and Freudian psychology in early modern European thought.

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29 August 2017
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