Essential Papers on Literature and Psychoanalysis

by William Butler, Charles Darwin, James Darsey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814711855
• ISBN13: 9780814711859
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.2"