Freud's literary Theory
Abstract
From the moment in which the neurotic symptom appears as an imaginary disguise for the psychic trauma, literature becomes for Freud the ideal object of analysis in order to rebuild the experiences of the unconscious mind. Since both are regulated by the imaginative function of the mind, symptom and literature alike, can be described as symbolic and discursive constructs of the instinctual drive (pulsional), but with one essential difference: the symptom (and the dream, the lapsus, the witz) is, above all, an expression of the individual unconscious, while literature expresses the social unconscious; the door between one dimension and the other being in a state of constant fluidity.Downloads
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