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Author Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Title Writings on art and literature / Sigmund Freud ; with a foreword by Neil Hertz
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1997

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Description xxi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
regular print
Series Meridian, crossing aesthetics
Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
Contents Foreword / Neil Hertz -- Delusions and Dreams in Jensen's Gradiva -- Psychopathic Characters on the Stage -- The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words -- The Occurrence in Dreams of Material from Fairy Tales -- The Theme of the Three Caskets -- The Moses of Michelangelo -- Some Character-Types Met with in Psycho-analytic Work -- On Transience -- A Mythological Parallel to a Visual Obsession -- A Childhood Recollection from Dichtung und Wahrheit -- The 'Uncanny' -- Dostoevsky and Parricide -- The Goethe Prize -- Medusa's Head
Summary Despite Freud's enormous influence on twentieth-century interpretations of the humanities, there has never before been in English a complete collection of his writings on art and literature. These fourteen essays cover the entire range of his work on these subjects in chronological order, beginning with his first published analysis of a work of literature, the 1907 "Delusions and Dreams in Jensen's Gradiva," and concluding with the 1940 posthumous publication of "Medusa's Head." Many of the essays included in this collection have been crucial in contemporary literary and art criticism and theory
Notes "From The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud, edited by James Strachey."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-290)
Notes Translated from the German
Subject Psychoanalysis and the arts.
Author Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. Standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
Hertz, Neil.
LC no. 96051922
ISBN 0804729727 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804729735 (paperback: alk. paper)