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Abstract
A new notion of literature unfolds by way of MADDness and psychoanalysis in the Sopranos. “Down Neck” is one episode of a television series whose “novelistic” literary format that is “akin to Shakespeare” is often owed to the “ambiguous morality” of the main protagonist as well as the narrative more broadly. This article alternatively emphasises The Sopranos' creator and screenwriter David Chase's scripting of moral ambiguity through assembling an ambiguous status of epistemological truth(s). Within MADDness David Chase or artistic production is a mode of Carrollean literary criticism. Chase offers literary criticism literally, in a manner in which literary theory can be increasingly generated only through literature itself or, can only be self‐generated. Psychoanalysis regains its literary element in an era of MADDness. Psychoanalysis in the space of literature takes the form of a psychoanalysis‐on‐its‐own‐terms in The Sopranos.
1. For David Chase.
Notes
1. For David Chase.
2. All the quotations which follow are taken from Carroll Citation1992.
3. As Chase has referred to his own relationship to depression.