An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer

by Andrew Gordon

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Analyzes Mailer's achievement from The Naked and the Dead through The Armies of the Night, using the techniques of depth psychology developed by Freud and certain post-Freudians. In particular, it explores the interrelated concerns in Mailer's fiction of sex, anality, violence, and power.
  • ISBN10 0838630669
  • ISBN13 9780838630662
  • Publish Date 1 February 2012
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 17 March 2012
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Associated University Presses
  • Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 234
  • Language English