Essays, Letters & SpeechesDelusion and Dream : an Interpretation in the Light of Psychoanalysis of GradivaSigmund Freud, Wilhelm Jensen
Essays, Letters & Speeches

Delusion and Dream : an Interpretation in the Light of Psychoanalysis of Gradiva

by Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Jensen

Freud examines how a young archaeologist, Norbert Hanold, unconsciously transforms his repressed childhood love into an obsession with a woman depicted in an ancient Roman bas-relief.

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"Delusion and Dream: an Interpretation in the Light of Psychoanalysis of…" by Sigmund Freud is an essay written in 1907 that applies psychoanalysis to Wilhelm Jensen's novel Gradiva. Freud examines how a young archaeologist, Norbert Hanold, unconsciously transforms his repressed childhood love into an obsession with a woman depicted in an ancient Roman bas-relief. Through delusion and dreams set in Pompeii, Hanold eventually confronts reality when his forgotten sweetheart cleverly guides him back to sanity, demonstrating what Freud called "cure by love."

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Format
EPUB
Language
English
Length
192 pages
Published
1 January 1907
Publisher
Namaskar Books

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