Excerpt from The Erotic Motive in Literature Every author reveals more than he intended. Works of the imagination Open up to the reader hidden vistas in man's inner life just as dreams do. As the psycho analyst recognises that dreams are the realised repressed wishes of the unconscious, so the critic discovers in literary performances ideal pictures inspired by past repressions in the authors' lives. And just as anxiety dreams spring largely from the anxieties of waking life, so literature describing human sorrows in ...
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Excerpt from The Erotic Motive in Literature Every author reveals more than he intended. Works of the imagination Open up to the reader hidden vistas in man's inner life just as dreams do. As the psycho analyst recognises that dreams are the realised repressed wishes of the unconscious, so the critic discovers in literary performances ideal pictures inspired by past repressions in the authors' lives. And just as anxiety dreams spring largely from the anxieties of waking life, so literature describing human sorrows in general takes its cue from the personal griefs Of the author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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