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This chapter examines how Freud illuminates literature, and makes for a very full reading of it. It holds that not only did Freud know literature intimately, and quote liberally from literatures of several languages, he that has also inspired twentieth-century writers, as well as artists and philosophers, and has created several schools of ...
Ernst L. Freud (6 April 1892 – 7 April 1970) was an Austrian-born British architect and the fourth child of Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and his German-born wife Martha Bernays.
The present chapter is devoted to four interpretations of works of fiction: Shakespeare's Hamlet; Heine's “Lore-Ley”; and two fairy tales, “The Fisherman and the Jinny,” and “Snow White.”. The next chapter focuses on the psychoanalysis of culture.
A genuinely accessible introduction to Freud's theory and its application to literary and cultural studies. Few figures have had as much influence on Western thought as Sigmund Freud. His ideas permeate our culture to such a degree that an understanding of them is indispensable.
- Henk de Berg
- 2003
‘Art and literature’ explores Freud's attitudes to art and artists. Freud believed that art stemmed from the sublimation of unsatisfied libido. If an individual did not repress their impulses, it could manifest in either perversion or artistic expression.
It would be easy to surmise that the stern discipline of his medical training, received under the aegis of the pioneering ‘Helmholtzian’ Ernst von Brücke, stifled his youthful literary interests and thwarted forever his ambitions to emulate the Renaissance men he so admired.
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Oct 1, 1984 · On the other hand, Freud never dared to propose a complete correspondence between the language of literature and art, and the unconscious and its semiotic manifestation, but, rather, examined it, from the biographical (section 4) or psychological (sections 3, 5, 6, 7) point of view.
