Main description:

This unique book examines the psychanalysis of madness and trauma through an extended discussion of Tristram Shandy. Crossover between literary studies and psychoanalysis.
Francoise Davoine explores the entire novel, taking a psychoanalytic lens to the monologue by Tristram's embryo in the opening chapter, the war traumas of Captain Toby and Corporal Trim, and several key themes including confinement, love and history.
The book presents Shandean wit as a valuable tool in therapeutic work.

Contents:

1: The embryo's "I wish"

2: Psychotherapy of Uncle Toby's war traumas and the reading of a sermon on perversion

3: Theatre of fools

4: Social unrest in Strasburg

5: Confinement

6: Epitaph

7: Journey to France

8: The politics of love and slavery

9: No to perversion