Freud's literary culture

1 The unconscious of psychoanalysis: Freud's literary allusions. 2 A sublime ambivalence: Freud as literary critic. 3 The literary-critical paradigm: sources of Freud's hermeneutic. 4 The frustrated Dichter: literary qualities of Freud's text

'This original study investigates the role played by literature in Sigmund Freud's creation and development of psychoanalysis....analyses the whole range of Freud's own texts from a literary-critical perspective, providing a fresh and comprehensive reappraisal of his life's work....explores Freud's own attempts at analysing literature, the influence of literary criticism on his approach to analysing patients, and his creation of psychoanalytical "novels", quasi-literary fictions fraught with profoundly personal subtexts....'

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