Title: Writings on art and literature /
Authors: Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939; Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
Publisher: Stanford University Press,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Psychoanalysis and the arts
Abstract: 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.
Contents: 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.