Writing in Psychoanalysis: Literary Traits in the Freudian Deutung

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Psychoanalysis, Freud, Writing, Literature, Interpretation

Abstract

This article analyzes the relationship between psychoanalysis and writing. To do this, it draws on conceptualizations of the act of writing as similar to the practice of free association, in which the experience of the person carrying out the analysis is comparable to the reading of a fictional “text”. It argues that the subjective constitution of the patient as a “novel”, according to the Freudian classical formulation, is more than a metaphor. Rather, this circumstance marks a key shift in the Freudian consideration of art in general and of literature in particular, for which the Dichter or literary writer becomes a true model of the analytical work itself.

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2020-01-31

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Gracia Gómez, A. A. (2020). Writing in Psychoanalysis: Literary Traits in the Freudian Deutung. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (22), 116–133. Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/452f/article/view/29102

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No. 22 (2020): Catalan Literary Thought: Critical Reflections

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Miscellaneous

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