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Essential Papers on Literature and Psychoanalysis

Essential Papers on Literature and Psychoanalysis

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Series: Essential Papers on Psychoanalysis, Book 12

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0814711855
ISBN13: 9780814711859
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Jan 1 1993
Pages: 504
Weight: 1.71
Height: 1.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

In a draft attached to a letter to his friend and confidante Wilhelm Fliess (May 31, 1897), Freud develops an idea: The mechanism of fiction is the same as that of hysterical fantasies. He supports this thought with a brief analysis of the biographical sources of Goethe's Werther. A few months later, on October 15, 1897, Freud mails Fliess a detailed account of remembered events from his childhood that, Freud believed, underlined the universality of Oedipus Rex and Hamlet. Freud's foray into literature initiated the beginning of a new critical approach.

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