Title:
On creativity and the unconscious : the psychology of art, literature, love, and religion
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Edition:
1st Harper Perennial Modern Thought ed.
Publication Date:
2009
Publication Information:
New York : Harper Perennial, 2009.
Physical Description:
xiii, 310 pages : portrait ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
9780061718694
Abstract:
On Creativity and the Unconscious brings together Freud's important essays on the many expressions of creativity-including art, literature, love, dreams, and spirituality. This diverse collection includes "The 'Uncanny, '" "The Moses of Michelangelo," "The Psychology of Love," "The Relation of the Poet to Day-Dreaming," "On War and Death," and "Dreams and Telepathy."
Contents:
Art. The Moses of Michelangelo -- A mythological parallel to a visual obsession -- Literature. The relation of the poet to day-dreaming -- The antithetical sense of primal words -- The theme of the three caskets -- The occurrence in dreams of material from fairy tales -- Some character-types met with in the psycho-analytic work -- A childhood recollection from Goethe's Dichtung und wahrheit (Poetry & truth) -- The "uncanny" -- Love. Three contributions to the psychology of love : A special type of choice of object made by men ; The most prevalent form of degradation in erotic life ; The taboo of virginity -- Religion. Thoughts for the times on war and death -- Dreams and telepathy -- A neurosis of demoniacal possession in the seventeenth century.
Language:
English
