Brooklyn & Give me Liberty or Give me Decadence? (Freud)

Mark Wright AIA mwaia at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 23 18:57:01 CST 2002


Howdy
--- Terrance Flaherty <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Indeed, traces of the Gothic are
> ubiquitous
> in Freud's writing, and not only in literary studies like "The
> Uncanny"
> or "Delusion and Dream"; it is not surprising, though maybe circular,
> that psychoanalysis should be used as a tool for explicating these
> texts
> that provided many of its structuring metaphors.

yes, exactly, i never thought of that but it is highly suggestive:
Freud's work as a serial meta-Gothic novel! 
dreamy....
Mark

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