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FREUD’S LITERARY CULTURE
This original study investigates the role played by literature in Sigmund Freud’s creation and development of psychoanalysis. Graham Frankland analyses the whole range of Freud’s own texts from a literary-critical perspective, providing a fresh and comprehensive reappraisal of his life’s work. Freud was steeped in classical European literature but seems initially to have repressed all literary influences on his scientific work. Frankland traces their reemergence, examining in detail Freud’s many literary allusions and quotations as well as the rhetoric and imagery of his writing. He explores Freud’s own attempts at analysing literature, the influence of literary criticism on his approach to analysing patients, and his creation of psychoanalytical ‘novels’, quasi-literary fictions fraught with profoundly personal subtexts. Freud’s Literary Culture sheds new light on a multi-faceted, contradictory writer who continues to have an unparalleled impact on our postmodern culture precisely because he was so deeply rooted in European literary tradition. is Research Fellow in German at the University of Liverpool. He is currently translating Freud’s ‘The Unconscious’ for Penguin Modern Classics.
General editors H.B. Nisbet, University of Cambridge Martin Swales, University of London Advisory editor Theodore J. Ziolkowski, Princeton University
Also in the series .. : The Dear Purchase: A Theme in German Modernism : The Plays of Heinrich von Kleist: Ideals and Illusions .. : Theatre in Vienna: A Critical History – : The German ‘Bildungsroman’: Incest and Inheritance : Women, the Novel, and the German Nation –: Domestic Fiction in the Fatherland : Literature and German Reunification
FREUD’S LITERARY CULTURE
This original study investigates the role played by literature in Sigmund Freud’s creation and development of psychoanalysis. Graham Frankland analyses the whole range of Freud’s own texts from a literary-critical perspective, providing a fresh and comprehensive reappraisal of his life’s work. Freud was steeped in classical European literature but seems initially to have repressed all literary influences on his scientific work. Frankland traces their reemergence, examining in detail Freud’s many literary allusions and quotations as well as the rhetoric and imagery of his writing. He explores Freud’s own attempts at analysing literature, the influence of literary criticism on his approach to analysing patients, and his creation of psychoanalytical ‘novels’, quasi-literary fictions fraught with profoundly personal subtexts. Freud’s Literary Culture sheds new light on a multi-faceted, contradictory writer who continues to have an unparalleled impact on our postmodern culture precisely because he was so deeply rooted in European literary tradition. is Research Fellow in German at the University of Liverpool. He is currently translating Freud’s ‘The Unconscious’ for Penguin Modern Classics.
General editors H.B. Nisbet, University of Cambridge Martin Swales, University of London Advisory editor Theodore J. Ziolkowski, Princeton University
Also in the series .. : The Dear Purchase: A Theme in German Modernism : The Plays of Heinrich von Kleist: Ideals and Illusions .. : Theatre in Vienna: A Critical History – : The German ‘Bildungsroman’: Incest and Inheritance : Women, the Novel, and the German Nation –: Domestic Fiction in the Fatherland : Literature and German Reunification