Synopses & Reviews
Fiction. Analysis. Translated from the German by Helen M. Downey. Together in one volume are the strange and evocative "Pompeiian Fancy" by German author Wilhelm Jensen and one of the major texts of psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud that discusses the role of delusion and dream in Jensen's work. In Jensen's story, a young man discovers in Rome a marble statue of a young woman with whom he becomes preoccupied. His work leads him to dream of encountering the woman in Pompeii on the day of the Vesuvius eruption and attempting to warn her of her fate. Compelled by this dream, the young man travels to Pompeii where it appears he meets the actual woman. The question of whether or not this woman is real becomes the focus of Freud's brilliant study.
Synopsis
Here together in one edition is the strange and evocative "Pompeiian Fancy" by German author Wilhelm Jensen and one of the major texts of psychoanalysis in Freud's oeuvre, which discusses the role of dream and delusion in Jensen's work. This book, previously reprinted by Sun and Moon Press, has been the subject of many works of art and essays, including a recent show at the Getty Museum of Art by the noted French installation artists Anne and Patrick Porier.
Wilhelm Jensen was a German author of no great fame, but the response by Freud belongs in the large canon of works by the father of psychoanalysis.
Synopsis
A reprinting of the famous work by Freud and the original work about which he commented.
About the Author
Jensen wrote several novels in the late nineteenth century. Freud, of course, is the famous father of psychoanalysis, authoring hundreds of books and essays on the subject.