Curriculum Vitae
BORN:
August 19, 1931; Baltimore, Maryland.
DEGREES:
A.B., 1952, and Ph.D. 1959, The Johns Hopkins University.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Junior Instructor, The Johns Hopkins University, 1953-1956; Instructor, Lehigh University, 1956-60; Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, 1960-64; Associate Professor, MSU, 1964-67; Professor of English and Comparative Literature, MSU, 1967-81; Professor of English, University of Florida, 1981-96. Emeritus Professor of English, University of Florida, 1996--. Visiting Professor, Victorian Studies Centre, University of Leicester, 1972. Director, Institute for Psychological Study of the Arts (IPSA), University of Florida, 1985-92.
HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
A.B. with General and Departmental Honors; Phi Beta Kappa, 1952; Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1969-70; Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1974-75.
GRANTS:
Norman J. Levy Foundation, 1967; Humanities Research Center, Michigan State University, Summer, 1978; Research Development Award, University of Florida, 1983, 1985, 1989, 1990.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
Member, Modern Language Association of America; Honorary Member, Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis; Founder and Director, International Karen Horney Society; Scientific Associate, American Academy of Psychoanalysis; Honorary Member, American Institute for Psychoanalysis.
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES:
Editorial Board, The Centennial Review, 1965-81; American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1985 to present; Freie Assoziation, 1998 to present. External editor, the Karen Horney series, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House.
CONSULTANT:
Fellowship Division, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1976, 1977.
PROFESSIONAL WRITING:
Books
Experiments in Life: George Eliot's Quest for Values. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1965. Excerpt from Chapter 7 reprinted in Readings on "Silas Marner," ed. Barbara A. Goodman. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, pp. 149-55.
A Psychological Approach to Fiction: Studies in Thackeray, Stendhal, George Eliot, Dostoevsky, and Conrad. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974. Excerpt from Ch. 1 reprinted in Contexts for Criticism, ed. Donald Keesey. Palo Alto, CA: Mayfield Punishing Co., 1998, pp. 226-34. Chapter 4 reprinted in Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Gale Research, 1995. Paperbound reissue with new Preface by author, Transaction Publishers, forthcoming, 2010.
Character and Conflict in Jane Austen's Novels: A Psychological Approach. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1978; and Brighton: Harvester Press, 1979 (U.K. edition). Excerpt reprinted in Readings on "Pride and Prejudice," ed. Clarice Swisher, Greenhaven Press, 1998. Excerpt from Chapter 4 reprinted in Elizabeth Bennet (Major Literary Characters Series), ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, 2004. Chapter 3 (Emma) reprinted in Critical Insights: Jane Austen, ed . Jack Lynch, Salem Press, 2009.
Bargains with Fate: Psychological Crises and Conflicts in Shakespeare and His Plays, Insight Books (Plenum Publishing Corp.), 1991. Chinese edition, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, 1997. Excerpt from Chapter 9 reprinted in Contexts for Criticism, ed. Donald Keesey. Palo Alto, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1998, pp. 246-254. Reissued in paperbound edition with new Preface by author, Transaction Publishers. 2008.
Character as a Subversive Force in Shakespeare: The History and the Roman Plays, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991. Chapter 3 reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism Yearbook 1991, Gale Research, 1993. Chapter 6 reprinted in The Aligarh Critical Miscellany, 7 (1994), pp. 117-49. Excerpt from Chapter 4 reprinted in Shakespeare's Histories, ed. Harold Bloom. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House, 2000.
Karen Horney: A Psychoanalyst's Search for Self-Understanding, Yale University Press, 1994. Selected as a Notable Book of the Year for 1994 by the New York Times Book Review. Selection of the Psychotherapy Book Club. Honorable Mention, AAP Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award (1994). Paperbound edition, 1996. German edition--Karen Horney: Leben und Werk--Kore Verlag, 1996. Reissued by Psychosozial Verlag, 2006. Chinese edition, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, 1997.
Imagined Human Beings: A Psychological Approach to Character and Conflict in Literature. New York University Press, Hardbound and Paperbound editions, November 1997. Nominated for Gradiva Award, 1998. Chinese edition, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, 2000.
Rereading George Eliot: Changing Perspectives on Her Experiments in Life. State University of New York Press, Hardbound and Paperbound editions, 2003.
Conrad’s Charlie Marlow: A New Approach to “Heart of Darkness” and Lord Jim. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Dostoevsky's Greatest Characters: A New Approach to “Notes from Underground,” Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Heaven and Its Discontents: Milton’s Characters in Paradise Lost, forthcoming, Transaction Publishers, 2010.
Books Edited
Third Force Psychology and the Study of Literature, Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986.
Shakespeare's Personality (with Norman Holland and Sidney Homan), University of California Press, 1989.
The Therapeutic Process: Essays and Lectures, by Karen Horney. Edited and with introductions by Bernard J. Paris. Yale University Press, 1999. Spanish translation (El Proceso Terapeutico), Ediciones La Llave-D.H., 2003.
The Unknown Karen Horney: Essays on Gender, Culture, and Psychoanalysis, by Karen Horney. Edited and with introductions by Bernard J. Paris. Yale University Press, 2000. Nominated for a Gradiva Award, 2002.
Journal Issues Edited
Guest Editor, The Literary Review, Winter, 1981. Special issue on "Third Force Psychology and the Study of Literature."
Guest Editor, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Fall, 1989. Special issue on "Interdisciplinary Applications of Horney."
Editor, Bulletin of the International Karen Horney Society, 1992-1997.
Guest Editor, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Fall, 1999. Special issue on "Psychoanalytic Perspectives on George Eliot."
Essays in Books
"Experiences of Thomas Hardy," in The Victorian Experience, ed. Richard A. Levine. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1976, pp. 203-237.
"Third Force Psychology and The Study of Literature," Psychological Perspectives on Literature -- Freudian Dissidents and Non-Freudians, ed. Joseph Natoli. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Press, 1984, pp. 155-180.
"Introduction," "Horney, Maslow, and the Third Force," "Third Force Psychology and the Study of Literature, Biography, Criticism, and Culture," Third Force Psychology and the Study of Literature, ed. Bernard J. Paris. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985, pp. 11-94.
"The Disparity between Representation and Interpretation in Shakespeare's Presentation of Prince Hal," Essays on Shakespeare in Honour of A. A. Ansari. Meerut, India: Shalabh Book House, 1986, pp. 175-194.
"Brutus, Cassius, and Caesar: An Interdestructive Triangle," Psychoanalytic Approaches to Literature and Film, ed. Maurice Charney and Joseph Reppen. Rutherford, N. J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1987, pp. 139-55.
"The Tempest: Shakespeare's Ideal Solution," Shakespeare's Personality, ed. Norman Holland, Sidney Homan, and Bernard Paris. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989, pp. 206-225. Reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism, Vol. 61, Ed. Michelle Lee. Gale Publishing, 2001.
"Jane Eyre as a Novel of Vindication," Approaches to Teaching Brontë's JANE EYRE, ed. Diane Hoeveler and Beth Lau. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993, pp. 124-129.
"Pulkheria Alexandrovna and Raskolnikov, My Mother and Me," Self-Analysis in Literary Criticism, ed. Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, New York University Press, 1994, pp. 111-129.
Introduction to Chinese translation of Karen Horney's Neurosis and Human Growth. Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, 1996, pp. 2-25.
Introduction to Russian translation of Karen Horney's Neurosis and Human Growth. East European Institute for Psychoanalysis, 1997, pp. 5-25
"Karen Horney and Humanistic Psychoanalysis," Personality and Personal Growth, Fourth edition, ed. James Fadiman and Robert Frager. Longman, 1998, pp. 157-190.
"Karen Horney: The Three Phases of Her Thought." Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology, Vol. 4. American Psychological Association and Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000, pp. 163-179.
"Karen Horney." Encyclopedia of Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 161-63.
“Karen Horney.” Dictionnaire de la Psychanalyse. Calmann-Levy (Paris), 2000.
“Karen Horney.” The Freud Encyclopedia. Garland Publishing Co., 2001.
“Karen Horney.” Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford University Press, 2007.
Articles
"Towards a Revaluation of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss," Nineteenth Century Fiction, 11 (1956), 18-31.
"Optimism and Pessimism in The Marble Faun," Boston University Studies in English, 2 (1956), 95-112. Reprinted in The Merrill Studies in The Marble Faun, compiled by David B. Kesterson; Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, 1971.
"George Eliot's Unpublished Poetry," Studies in Philology, 56 (1959), 539-558.
"Science and Art in George Eliot's Quest for Values," The Humanist, Jan./Feb., 1960, 47-52.
"Emerson's 'Bacchus,'" Modern Language Quarterly, 23 (1962), 150-159.
"George Eliot's Religion of Humanity," ELH, 29 (1962), 418-433. Reprinted in Twentieth Century Views of George Eliot, ed. George R. Creeger. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1970, pp. 11-36.
"George Eliot, Science Fiction, and Fantasy," Extrapolation: A Science-Fiction Newsletter, 5 (1964), 26-30.
"George Eliot and the Higher Criticism," Anglia, 84 (1966), 59-73.
"Coleridge's 'The Eolian Harp,'" Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, 51 (1966), 571-582.
"The Psychic Structure of Vanity Fair," Victorian Studies, 10 (1967), 57-79.
"Form, Theme, and Imitation in Realistic Fiction," Novel, 1 (1968), 140-149.
"'A Confusion of Many Standards': Conflicting Value Systems in Tess of the d'Urbervilles," Nineteenth Century Fiction, 24 (1969), 57-79.
"The Inner Conflicts of Maggie Tulliver: A Horneyan Analysis," The Centennial Review, 13 (1969), 166-199.
"The Otherness of George Eliot," Journal of Modern Literature, 1 (1970-71), 272-277. (Review essay)
"Notes from Underground: A Horneyan Analysis," PMLA, 88 (1973), 511-522.
"Herzog the Man: An Analytic View of a Literary Figure," The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 36 (1976), 249-260.
"Hamlet and His Problems: A Horneyan Analysis," The Centennial Review, 21 (1977), 36-66.
"Creations inside a Creation: The Case of Emma Woodhouse," Psychocultural Review, 2 (1978), 119-138.
"The Two Selves of Rodion Raskolnikov," Gradiva, 1 (1978), 316-328.
"Horney's Theory and the Study of Literature," The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 38 (1978), 343-353.
"Bargains with Fate: A Psychological Approach to Shakespeare's Major Tragedies," The Aligarh Journal of English Studies, 5 (1980), 144-161.
"Third Force Psychology and the Study of Literature, Biography, Criticism, and Culture," The Literary Review, 24 (1981), 181-221. I am guest editor of this issue.
"A Horneyan Approach to Shakespeare," The Shakespeare Newsletter, 31: 2 (1981), 14.
"The Inner Conflicts of Measure for Measure," The Centennial Review, 25 (1981), 266-276. Reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism, Vol. 44. Gale Publishing, 1999.
"'Hush, hush! He's a human being': A Psychological Approach to Heathcliff," Women and Literature, 2, n.s. (1982), 101-117.
"Bargains with Fate: The Case of Macbeth," The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 42 (1982), 7-20. Reprinted in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 71. Gale Publishing, 1997.
"Richard III: Shakespeare's First Great Mimetic Character," Aligarh Journal of English Studies, 8 (1983), 40-67.
"Iago's Motives: A Horneyan Analysis," Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire, 62 (1984), 504-20.
"'His Scorn I Approve': The Self-effacing Desdemona," The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 44 (1984), 413-24.
"Interdisciplinary Applications of Horney," The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 49 (1989), 181-88.
"The Not So Noble Antonio: A Horneyan Analysis of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice," The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 49 (1989), 189-200.
"A Horneyan Approach to Literature," The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 51 (1991), 319-37.
"Marlow's Transformation," The Aligarh Journal of English Studies, 15 (1993), 65-72.
"Petruchio's Taming of Kate: A Horneyan Perspective," The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 54 (1994), 339-44.
"Response to Reviews of Karen Horney: A Psychoanalyst's Search for Self-Understanding," The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 56 (1996), 116-119.
"Introduction to Karen Horney," The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 56 (1996), 135-140.
Essay on New Ways in Psychoanalysis, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 56 (1996), 217-222.
"Activities of the International Karen Horney Society," The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 56 (1996), 231-32.
"The Search for Glory in Madame Bovary: A Horneyan Analysis," The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 57 (1997), 5-24.
"Karen Horney Contre Sigmund Freud: Une Théorie Structurelle de la Nérvrose," L'Evolution Psychiatrique, 62 (1997), 617-27.
"Karen Horney's Vision of the Self," The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 59 (1999), 157 -- 166.
"Middlemarch Revisited: Changing Responses to George Eliot," The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 59 (1999), 237-255.
"Karen Horney: A Bibliography of Her Writings," The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 61 (2001), 165-172.
"Daniel Deronda and Gwendolen Harleth: A Therapeutic Relationship?" Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 30 (2002), 99-122, 133-134.
"Rick, Ilsa, and Laszlo: A Closer Look at Characterization in Casablanca," PSYART: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, Article 050719 (2005). <www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2005_paris02.shtml>
Reviews
Barbara Hardy, The Novels of George Eliot, Modern Language Notes, 75 (1960), 445-447.
Placide-Gustave Maheu, La Pensée religieuse et moral de George Eliot, Modern Language Notes, 75 (1960), 448-449.
Reva Stump, Movement and Vision in George Eliot's Novels, Modern Language Notes, 75 (1960), 442-445.
Jerome Thale, The Novels of George Eliot, Modern Language Notes, 75 (1960), 447-448.
Jerome Beaty, "Middlemarch" from Notebook to Novel, Modern Language Notes, 76 (1961), 657-659.
Susan Quinn, A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney, Contemporary Psychology, 34 (1989), 568-69.
See also, "The Otherness of George Eliot" (1970-71).