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Great Expectations: "The Ghost of a Man's Own Father" Author(s): Lawrence Jay Dessner Source: PMLA, Vol. 91, No. 3 (May, 1976), pp. 436-449 Published by: Modern Language Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/461693 . Accessed: 28/04/2011 01:18
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LAWRENCE JAY DESSNER
Great "the Expectations: ghost of a man's own father"
T
HIS ESSAY attempts to provide a useful
account of Dickens' Great Expectations. It makes use of some principles of Freudian theory and of reports of contemporary psychoanalytic medical practice. Psychoanalytically oriented criticism of literature is, often, still an enthusiast's cause. Pompous jargon, theorems masquerading as axioms, repel us. Who has not recoiled from a ludicrously farfetched...
Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at . http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=mla. . Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.
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LAWRENCE JAY DESSNER
Great "the Expectations: ghost of a man's own father"
T
HIS ESSAY attempts to provide a useful
account of Dickens' Great Expectations. It makes use of some principles of Freudian theory and of reports of contemporary psychoanalytic medical practice. Psychoanalytically oriented criticism of literature is, often, still an enthusiast's cause. Pompous jargon, theorems masquerading as axioms, repel us. Who has not recoiled from a ludicrously farfetched...