Freud's literary culture / Graham Frankland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frankland, Graham, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in German.

Cambridge studies in German

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939--Knowledge--Literature.

Freud, Sigmund.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 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 re-emergence, 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.

Contents:

1. The unconscious of psychoanalysis: Freud's literary allusions

2. A sublime ambivalence: Freud as literary critic

3. The literary-critical paradigm: sources of Freud's hermeneutic

4. The frustrated Dichter: literary qualities of Freud's text.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-256) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11880-8

0-511-04916-1

0-511-31036-6

0-511-15087-3

0-521-66316-4

0-511-48576-X

1-280-16214-7

0-511-11820-1

OCLC:

475871149