{"product_id":"writings-on-art-and-literature-9780804729734","title":"Writings on Art and Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eDespite Freud's enormous influence on twentieth-century interpretations of the humanities, there has never before been in English a complete collection of his writings on art and literature. These fourteen essays cover the entire range of his work on these subjects, in chronological order beginning with his first published analysis of a work of literature, the 1907 \"Delusion and Dreams in Jensen's \u003ci\u003eGradiva\u003c\/i\u003e\" and concluding with the 1940 posthumous publication of \"Medusa's Head.\" Many of the essays included in this collection have been crucial in contemporary literary and art criticism and theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the subjects Freud engages are Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eHamlet, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMacbeth,\u003c\/i\u003e Goethe's \u003ci\u003eDichtung und Wahrheit,\u003c\/i\u003e Michelangelo's \u003ci\u003eMoses,\u003c\/i\u003e E. T. A. Hoffman's \"The Sand Man,\"  Dostoevsky's \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov,\u003c\/i\u003e fairy tales, the effect of and the meaning of beauty, mythology, and the games of aestheticization. All texts are drawn from \u003ci\u003eThe Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by James Strachey. The volume includes the notes prepared for that edition by the editor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the writings on Jensen's \u003ci\u003eGradiva\u003c\/i\u003e and Medusa, the essays are: \"Psychopathic Characters on the Stage,\" \"The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words,\" \"The Occurrence in Dreams of Material from Fairy Tales,\" \"The Theme of the Three Caskets,\" \"The \u003ci\u003eMoses\u003c\/i\u003e of Michelangelo,\" \"Some Character Types Met with in Psycho-analytic Work,\" \"On Transience,\" \"A Mythological Parallel to a Visual Obsession,\" \"A Childhood Recollection from \u003ci\u003eDichtung und Wahrheit,\"\u003c\/i\u003e \"The Uncanny,\" \"Dostoevsky and Parricide,\" and \"The Goethe Prize.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sigmund Freud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42957298532470,"sku":"9780804729734","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/writings-on-art-and-literature-9780804729734","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}