Albert Mordell: 2 books

This work, first published in 1919, is an endeavour to apply some of the methods of psychoanalysis to literature. It traces a writer’s books back to the outward and inner events of their life and to reveal of their unconscious. This unconscious is largely identical with the mental love fantasies...

This 1919 work was praised by Freud himself. Applying psychoanalytic theories to his literary studies, the author considers eroticism, the Oedipus complex, genius, projection, neuroses, villains, cynicism, sublimation, and more before moving on to discuss the lives and works of Homer, Keats, Shelley, Poe, and Nietzsche, among others.