Emotion and writing : a psychoanalytic perspective

This thesis explores how four college students who enjoy writing and feel confident\ud about their writing ability perceive the role of emotion in their writing processes.\ud Participant responses are put in conversation with relevant literature on the topics of\ud affect, response, and psychoanalysis in an effort to bring together three existing, but not\ud currently interwoven strands of research and scholarship. By carefully examining and\ud analyzing students??? own accounts of their feelings about writing, this study posits that a\ud social-constructivist understanding of emotion, if used in a classroom where\ud metacognition is highly valued, might render these affective dimensions of the writing\ud process as curricularly useful for the development of critical thought and academic\ud discourse