Background
Levine, Michael G. was born on July 15, 1955 in New York City.
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What does it mean to treat a dream as a censored text? Why does Freud turn to the realm of politics when attempting to describe dreams and forces that shape them? What happens to the concept of censorship when it enters Freudian discourse? Is its political significance lost in translation or does Freud's borrowing render enigmatic what we thought we understood under the name of "censorship" and under the name of "borrowing"? In "Writing Through Repression", Michael Levine juxtaposes readings of psychoanalytic, literary, and critical texts to explore these questions. Rather than seeking to extract a particular notion of censorship from Freud in order to apply it elsewhere, he argues that it is more instructive to examine the difficulties Freud has in coming to terms with this notion. It is through such difficulties, he suggests, that Freud's text opens a different kind of dialogue with the writings of Heine, Benjamin, and Kafka - one that opens each to the challenge of the other.
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comparative literature educator
Levine, Michael G. was born on July 15, 1955 in New York City.
Bachelor in Intellectual History, Cornell University, 1978. Master of Arts in German, Johns Hopkins University, 1982. Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature, Johns Hopkins University, 1985.
Mellon Junior fellow, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1985-1987; assistant professor, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1987-1993; associate professor, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, since 1993. Dramaturge Yale Reperatory Theatre, New Haven, 1993, 94.
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Son of Juliann Garey, May 27, 1990. 1 child, Gabriel Garey.