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Author Lawson, Lewis A.

Title A Gorgon's mask : the mother in Thomas Mann's fiction / Lewis A. Larson
Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodolpi, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (435 pages) : illustrations
Series Psychoanalysis and culture ; 12
Psychoanalyse en cultuur ; 12.
Contents Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; I. Introduction; II. Early Works; III. The Magic Mountain; IV. Mann meets Freud; V. Joseph and His Brothers; VI. Doctor Faustus; VII. The Holy Sinner; VIII. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary The thesis of A Gorgon's mask: The Mother in Thomas Mann's Fiction depends upon three psychoanalytic concepts: Freud's early work on the relationship between the infant and its mother and on the psychology of artistic creation, Annie Reich's analysis of the grotesque-comic sublimation, and Edmund Bergler's analysis of writer's block. Mann's crisis of sexual anxiety in late adolescence is presented as the defining moment for his entire artistic life. In the throes of that crisis he included a sketch of a female as Gorgon in a book that would not escape his mother's notice. But to defend himself
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 -- Criticism and interpretation
Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 -- Psychology
SUBJECT Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955
Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 fast
Subject Mothers in literature.
Grotesque in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Psychoanalysis.
Mothers -- Psychology
Mothers -- psychology
Medicine in Literature
Psychoanalytic Theory
Psychoanalysis
psychoanalysis.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
Psychoanalysis
Mothers -- Psychology
Medicine in literature
Grotesque in literature
Mothers in literature
Psychology
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1417591196
9781417591190
9789401201827
940120182X