Graham Frankland's Freud's Literary Culture (Cambridge Studies in German) PDF

By Graham Frankland

ISBN-10: 0521663164

ISBN-13: 9780521663168

This unique learn investigates the function performed by way of literature in
Sigmund Freud’s construction and improvement of psychoanalysis.
Graham Frankland analyses the entire diversity of Freud’s personal texts
from a literary-critical viewpoint, delivering a clean and comprehensive
reappraisal of his life’s paintings. Freud used to be steeped in classical
European literature yet turns out in the beginning to have repressed all
literary impacts on his medical paintings. Frankland lines their reemergence,
examining intimately Freud’s many literary allusions and
quotations in addition to the rhetoric and imagery of his writing. He
explores Freud’s personal makes an attempt at analysing literature, the influence
of literary feedback on his method of analysing sufferers, and his
creation of psychoanalytical ‘novels’, quasi-literary fictions fraught
with profoundly own subtexts. Freud’s Literary tradition sheds new
light on a multi-faceted, contradictory author who keeps to have
an unprecedented effect on our postmodern tradition precisely
because he was once so deeply rooted in ecu literary culture.

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In The Interpretation of Dreams Freud makes his first published reference to the complex, and he also discusses Oedipus and Hamlet for the first time. He justifies turning to literature by pointing out that for such a contentious theory he must base his evidence ‘on the broadest possible foundation’ (IV, ). 24 Here he relates both that he has discovered the complex within himself The unconscious of psychoanalysis  and that it is universal. Again he immediately begins a discussion of both Oedipus and Hamlet.

Freud’s Literary Culture Nowadays, however, even the most orthodox psychoanalysts do not deny that social and cultural prejudices peculiar to Freud himself also affected his thinking. As Freud was particularly steeped in literary culture, it would be perverse to discount this as one such influence. At school his passions had been not the sciences, but literature, languages, and, to some extent, philosophy. If, as he acknowledges, his science brings him to conclusions similar to those to be found in the works of poets and philosophers, the question of influence from these humanist spheres becomes particularly pressing.

As there is hardly a single area of psychoanalytical theory that remains unaffected by this literary and philosophical substratum, it will for present purposes be necessary to single out one aspect of theory whose textual elaboration may be examined in detail. Freud’s theory of the instincts, which culminates in his postulation of two primal drives, Eros and Thanatos, is a singularly appropriate object for such an examination.

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