In a draft attached to a letter to his friend and confidante
Wilhelm Fliess (May 31, 1897), Freud develops an idea: The
mechanism of fiction is the same as that of hysterical fantasies.
He supports this thought with a brief analysis of the biographical
sources of Goethe's Werther. A few months later, on October 15,
1897, Freud mails Fliess a detailed account of remembered events
from his childhood that, Freud believed, underlined the
universality of Oedipus Rex and Hamlet. Freud's foray into
literature initiated the beginning of a new critical approach. In
Essential Papers on Literature and Psychoanalysis, Emanuel Berman
presents classic and contemporary papers written at the
intersection of literature and psychoanalysis. In bringing these
essays together Berman traces the development of a discipline that
has often been plagued by a polarization between self-confident,
single-minded psychoanalysts reading literature as a series of case
studies and literary loyalists who cling to manifest content or to
the declared intentions of the authors, accepting them at face
value and depriving the work of its emotional complexity. Berman
covers the full range of old and new perspectives, and presents
selections from today's mature phase. This collection includes
papers by Sigmund Freud, Steven Marcus, Patrick J. Mahoney, Donald
Spence, Otto Rank, Ernest Jones, Ernst Kris, Phyllis Greenacre,
Florence Bonime and Maryanne Eckardt, David Werman, Ellen Handler
Spitz, Jacques Lacan, Shoshana Felman, Norman N. Holland, Roy
Schafer, Meredith Anne Skura, Gail S. Reed, Francis Baudry, Rivka
R. Eifermann, and Bennett Simon.
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