Freud and fiction [Introduction to theory of Literature]

  • Fry, Paul H.
Publication date
May 2011
Publisher
Yale University, Open Yale Courses

Abstract

Presents a class of Professor Paul Fry that discusses about the relationship between authorship and the psyche. Freud's meditations on the fundamental drives governing human behavior are read through the lens of literary critic Peter Brooks. The origins of Freud's work on the "pleasure principle" and his subsequent revision of it are charted, and the immediate and constant influence of Freudian thought on literary production is assertedEducação Superior::Linguística, Letras e Artes::Letra

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