Delusion and Dream: An Interpretation in the Light of Psychoanalysis of Gradiva
1907
Delusion and Dream: An Interpretation in the Light of Psychoanalysis of Gradiva
1907
Translated by Helen M. Downey
One of Freud's strangest and most revealing works applies his emerging psychoanalytic method to a sentimental Victorian novel. In Wilhelm Jensen's "Gradiva," archaeologist Norbert Hanold becomes obsessed with a Roman bas-relief of a woman walking, whom he names after the stone figure. He dreams she strides through ancient Pompeii. Then, in Vienna, he meets a young woman who resembles his obsession. What Hanold believes is a supernatural delusion is actually buried memory: the woman is Zoe, his childhood playmate whom he has completely forgotten. Freud reads this romance as a textbook case of repression, transference, and the return of the repressed. The book argues that dreams and delusions are not pathology but the mind's desperate attempts to remember what consciousness will not allow. It remains a foundational text for understanding how psychoanalysis reads literature: every narrative is a compromise between what we hide and what we need to know.
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“Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect".””
— Sigmund Freud
“One of these rules is to the effect that a dream is invariably related to the events of the day before the dream. Our author seems to be wishing to show that he has followed this rule, for he attaches the dream immediately to Hanold’s ‘pedestrian researches’.””
— Sigmund Freud
“It is hidden behind a play upon words, an ambiguity. “Somewhere in the sun Gradiva was sitting." We have quite correctly related this to the spot where he met her father, the zoologist. But could it not also mean in the "Sun"- that is, Gradiva is staying in the Albergo del Sole, the Sun Hotel?””
— Sigmund Freud
“There is far less freedom and arbitrariness in mental life, however, than we are inclined to assume - there may even be none at all.””
— Sigmund Freud
“Dupa cum se stie, in domeniul ocultismului este valabil principiul: cazurile negative nu dovedesc nimic.””
— Sigmund Freud
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