Narcissism, nihilism, simplicity, and self
By: Karl M. Abenheimer ; edited by Robert R. Calder.
Contributors: Calder, Robert R.
Publisher: Aberdeen University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: [Aberdeen, Scotland]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Literature -- Psychology.; Psychoanalysis and literature.; Narcissism in literature.; Nihilism in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references chiefly of the author's uncollected writings (p. 170-173) and index.
A collection of previously published and unpublished papers.
Cover subtitle: Studies in literature as psychology.
The editorial introduction includes two papers by Abenheimer: "On a Freudian interpretation of the story of Snow White" and "Existentialism."
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Robert R. Calder; title: On narcissism, with reference to Shakespeare's King Lear; title: Shakespeare's Tempest : a psychological analysis; title: On narcissism; title: The heart of man (Erich Fromm); title: Shakespeare's sonnets 120 and 121; title: The problem of individuation in the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche; title: Rilke and Nietzsche; title: Some answers to nihilism; title: The individualistic ego; title: Reflections on Gunter Grass's novel, The tin drum; title: Patrick White's Voss; title: On simplicity : with reference to Patrick White's novels The solid mandala and Riders in the chariot; title: Appendices; title: From "Jung in his letters." On "The Group."