Quixotic Desire

Quixotic Desire
Title page for Quixotic Desire: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Cervantes (1993)
EditorRuth El Saffar and Diana de Armas Wilson
LanguageEnglish
SubjectMiguel de Cervantes (particularly Don Quixote)
Genre
  • History
  • psychoanalysis
Published1993
PublisherCornell University Press
ISBN9781501734205
OCLC1129186585

Quixotic Desire: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Cervantes is a 1993 volume edited by Ruth El Saffar and Diana de Armas Wilson. It examines the work of the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes (most notably Don Quixote) through psychoanalytic perspectives, include those by Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. Within a few years of publication, it received praise for its potential to change Cervantine studies.