This antiquarian volume comprises Wilhelm Jensen's 1902 novel, Grandiva. First published in the "Neue Freie Presse", this text was inspired by an eponymous Roman bas-relief and would become the foundation for Sigmund Freud's seminal 1907 work 'Delusion and Dream'. Freud’s copy of this book can be found on the wall of his study in the Freud Museum at 20 Maresfield Gardens, London. A seminal book in the development of psychoanalysis, this text is a must-have for those with a keen interest in...

Readers can get a first-hand glimpse at the origins of psychoanalytic literary criticism in this compelling volume. It includes both the novel Gradiva by German writer Wilhelm Jensen, as well as an assessment of the novel by Sigmund Freud, the founding father of psychoanalysis.

Delve into the intricate world of the human psyche with ""Delusion and Dream: An Interpretation in the Light of Psychoanalysis of Gradiva"" by Sigmund Freud and Wilhelm Jensen. This groundbreaking work unravels the complex interplay between dreams and delusions, providing a profound insight into the mind’s hidden depths.As Freud dissects the narrative of ""Gradiva,"" you'll uncover the psychological mechanisms at play within our dreams and desires. This exp...

The novella "Gradiva" centers on a young archaeologist named Norbert Hanold. Hanold becomes obsessed with an ancient bas-relief of a woman he names "Gradiva" because of her unique walking posture. This obsession leads him to Italy, where he believes he will find the living embodiment of Gradiva.In Italy, Hanold encounters a woman named Zoë Bertgang, who closely resembles Gradiva. Through a series of events, Hanold’s obsession and dreams are explored, and he eventually realizes that Zoë is ...

Jensen's novella of an archaeologist who becomes obsessed with a girl on a Roman relief and believes he meets her in Pompeii, printed with the essay in which Freud takes it apart — his first full reading of a work of literature, published in 1907. The two halves make an argument about how much a writer knows without knowing it.

Delusion and Dream : an Interpretation in the Light of Psychoanalysis of Gradiva presents a profound exploration of human consciousness through the lens of psychoanalytic theory. This collection delves into the intricate dance between reality and imagination, brilliantly juxtaposed in a narrative context. With a meticulous discourse on themes such as repression, the unconscious mind, and dream interpretation, the anthology presents a tapestry of ideas that challenge conventional understand...

Erased from History gathers eleven writings in which vanished cities become sites of excavation, fantasy, mourning, and intellectual recovery. Its range is unusually capacious: drama and fiction meet psychoanalytic case history, archaeological report, travel narrative, religious antiquarianism, and speculative satire. Classical ruins, biblical landscapes, and buried urban worlds are approached not merely as dead locations but as provocations to memory and imagination. Particularly compelli...

The world-famous masterpiece about a writer's obsessive pursuit of forbidden love by a Nobel Prize laureate.Translation by Michael Henry HeimPublished on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustave von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to h...

This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1909 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading.. James published his first story, 'A Tragedy of Error', in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated to London, where he remained for the ...

Eight complex stories illustrative of the author's belief that "a story must tell itself," highlighted by the high art style of the famous title novella.

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams.Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as "Splendidly written, precise, short, complete and fine."It is the story of a wealthy, fiftyish American widow, recently a famous stage beauty, but now "drifting." The novel opens soon after her husband's death and her retirement from the theatre, as Mrs. Stone tries to adjust to her aimless new life in Rome. She is adjusting, too, to aging ...

Contempt is a brilliant and unsettling work by one of the revolutionary masters of modern European literature. All the qualities for which Alberto Moravia is justly famous—his cool clarity of expression, his exacting attention to psychological complexity and social pretension, his still-striking openness about sex—are evident in this story of a failing marriage. Contempt (which was to inspire Jean-Luc Godard’s no-less-celebrated film) is an unflinching examination of desp...