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University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia
Goethe's Allegories of Identity shows how Goethe's literary works, as the essential middle steps between Rousseau and Freud, lay the basis for modern depth psychology. Its illuminating scholarly yet accessible readings of five major works may also...
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Goethe's Allegories of Identity shows how Goethe's literary works, as the essential middle steps between Rousseau and Freud, lay the basis for modern depth psychology. Its illuminating scholarly yet accessible readings of five major works may also serve as an introduction to readers coming to Goethe for the first time. Cover -- CONTENTS -- PART I. THE PROBLEM -- Chapter 1. Representing Subjectivity -- Chapter 2. Goethe Contra Rousseau on Passion -- Chapter 3. Goethe Contra Rousseau on Social Responsibility -- PART II. EXPERIMENTS IN SUBJECTIVITY -- Chapter 4. The Theatrical Self -- Chapter 5. The Scientific Self: Identity in Faust -- Chapter 6. The Narrative Self -- PART III. THE LANGUAGE OF INTERIORITY -- Chapter 7. Goethe's Angst -- Chapter 8. "Es singen wohl die Nixen": Werther and the Romantic Tale -- Chapter 9. Goethe and the Uncanny -- Conclusion: Classicism and Goethe's Emotional Regime -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
