The Self as Muse: Narcissism and Creativity in the German Imagination 1750-1830

by Alexander Mathas

While there are countless philosophical and psychological studies that focus on sources of the self, narcissism has found relatively little attention in a pre-Freudian context. The Self as Muse fills this gap by examining various aspects of narcissism and their significance for the outpouring of creativity in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century German literature.
In many Eighteenth-century works of the period narcissism refers to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611480329
• ISBN13: 9781611480320
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0"