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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      05 June 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511485763
      9780521663168
      9780521024211
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485763
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.529kg, 276 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.421kg, 276 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, European Studies, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in German
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, European Studies, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in German
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    This original study investigates the role played by literature in Sigmund Freud's creation and development of psychoanalysis. Graham Frankland analyses the whole range of Freud's own texts from a literary-critical perspective, providing a comprehensive reappraisal of his life's work. Freud was steeped in classical European literature but seems initially to have repressed all literary influences on his scientific work. Frankland traces their re-emergence, examining in detail Freud's many literary allusions and quotations as well as the rhetoric and imagery of his writing. He 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. Freud's Literary Culture sheds new light on a multi-faceted, contradictory writer who continues to have an unparalleled impact on our postmodern culture precisely because he was so deeply rooted in European literary tradition.

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    "Frankland...is the only scholar to date to aspire to exhaustive treatment of Freud's complicated involvement with literature....a valuable resource." Choice

    "Freud's Literary Culture is a truly remarkable book that will stir the reader to reread Freud's work from a fresh point fo view....Freud's Literary Culture is a wonderfully stimulating and extraordinary comprehensive study of nonclinical influences on Freud's work." Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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