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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- Ossian-Rezeption von Michael Denis bis Goethe: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Primitivismus in Deutschland
- Werther, the Undead
- Who Is the Editor in Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers?
- Substitution, Self-blame, and Self-deception in Goethe's Stella: Ein Schauspiel für Liebende
- “Myth and Psychology”: The Curing of Orest in Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris
- Poetic Intentions and Musical Production: “Die erste Walpurgisnacht”
- Dichter, Herrscher, Natur: Die Entstehung des Ilmparks und das Bild des Parks in Goethes Dichtung
- Goethe, Rousseau, the Novel, and the Origins of Psychoanalysis
- Trauma and Memory in the Wahlverwandschaften
- Ein anderes Gretchen-Abenteuer: Das Ende der rhetorischen Poesiekonzeption und das fünfte Buch von Goethes Dichtung und Wahrheit
- Speech, Writing, and Identity in the West-Östlicher Divan
- Die Pforte entriegeln: Goethes “Urworte Orphisch”
- “Laß mich hören, laß mich fühlen”: Johann Sebastian Bach im Urteil Goethes
- Schiller the Killer: Wilhelm Tell and the Decriminalization of Murder
- Disciplining History: Schiller als Historiograph
- “Heiliger Goethe, bitt' für mich”: Friedrich Spielhagen and the Anxiety of Influence
- Goethes kleiner Vetter: Erinnerung an den Frankfurter Abenteurer Johann Konrad Friedrich
- In Memoriam, Jill Anne Kowalik (1949–2003)
- Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Book 8, Chapter 11: In Memoriam, Richard I. Brod (1933–2004)
- Book Reviews
Goethe, Rousseau, the Novel, and the Origins of Psychoanalysis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- Ossian-Rezeption von Michael Denis bis Goethe: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Primitivismus in Deutschland
- Werther, the Undead
- Who Is the Editor in Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers?
- Substitution, Self-blame, and Self-deception in Goethe's Stella: Ein Schauspiel für Liebende
- “Myth and Psychology”: The Curing of Orest in Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris
- Poetic Intentions and Musical Production: “Die erste Walpurgisnacht”
- Dichter, Herrscher, Natur: Die Entstehung des Ilmparks und das Bild des Parks in Goethes Dichtung
- Goethe, Rousseau, the Novel, and the Origins of Psychoanalysis
- Trauma and Memory in the Wahlverwandschaften
- Ein anderes Gretchen-Abenteuer: Das Ende der rhetorischen Poesiekonzeption und das fünfte Buch von Goethes Dichtung und Wahrheit
- Speech, Writing, and Identity in the West-Östlicher Divan
- Die Pforte entriegeln: Goethes “Urworte Orphisch”
- “Laß mich hören, laß mich fühlen”: Johann Sebastian Bach im Urteil Goethes
- Schiller the Killer: Wilhelm Tell and the Decriminalization of Murder
- Disciplining History: Schiller als Historiograph
- “Heiliger Goethe, bitt' für mich”: Friedrich Spielhagen and the Anxiety of Influence
- Goethes kleiner Vetter: Erinnerung an den Frankfurter Abenteurer Johann Konrad Friedrich
- In Memoriam, Jill Anne Kowalik (1949–2003)
- Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Book 8, Chapter 11: In Memoriam, Richard I. Brod (1933–2004)
- Book Reviews
Summary
ORIGINS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS” in the title of this article alludes to a larger two-part thesis, for which this essay analyzes only a single example: First, namely, the depth psychology of the twentieth century (I think here primarily of Freud) developed as a systematic scientific discourse from the imagistic language of European Romanticism (hence the ease with which Benjamin can offer a psychoanalytic reading of “Die wunderlichen Nachbarskinder”); and second, Goethe as the key figure who mediates the transition from the more diffuse and rational discourse of Sensibility to the more precise imagery of Romanticism, especially in Die Leiden des jungen Werther. This essay focuses specifically on his role in the reception of Rousseau, an obvious topic from the earliest days of comparative literary study. Rousseau did so much to stake out the concerns, ideology and aesthetics of European Romanticism that Goethe had to acknowledge his debt to the Frenchman, whose devotion to nature he helped to popularize in Germany. Although Rousseau's influence on Goethe has been surveyed and a few connections explored in detail, it has been less common to take careful account of Goethe's ambivalence toward his predecessor. This essay is a case-study in that ambivalence. It began some twenty-five years ago in an attempt to understand the parallels connecting Werther and Die Wahlverwandtschaften as Goethe's extended confrontation with Rousseau's epistolary novel Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse (1761), an effort which raised in turn the question of what drove Goethe back to the novel in 1808, so many years after Werther and after Rousseau's death (1778).
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- Goethe Yearbook 12 , pp. 111 - 128Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2004