Gambling, game, and psyche / Bettina L. Knapp.

Author/creator Knapp, Bettina Liebowitz
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbany : State University of New York Press, ©2000.
Descriptionviii, 308 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesSUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture. ^A324789
Contents ch. 1. Pascal: a geometer's wager with God -- ch. 2. Balzac: The wild ass's skin: the gambler's quest for power -- ch. 3. Poe: "William Wilson": gambler? wastrel? reprobate? -- ch. 4. Dostoevsky's flayed gambler -- ch. 5. Serao's Naples: smorfia mania and the devouring father -- ch. 6. Sholom Aleichem: "The lottery ticket": a human gamble -- ch. 7. Hesse's The glass bead game: computerized culture -- ch. 8. Kawabata's The master of go: game as ritual of exile -- ch. 9. Zhang Xinxin's Orchid madness.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 289-298) an dindex.
LCCN 98055926
ISBN0791443833 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN0791443841 (pb : alk. paper)