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Goethe: A Psychoanalytic Study, 1775–17861

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1966

H. F. Ellenberger
H. F. Ellenberger
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal
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K. R. Eissler's book is a significant contribution to the study of the psychological process of creation and of the origin of genius, insofar as that problem can be illuminated by a psychoanalytic inquiry into one crucial period in the life of one man of genius: Goethe.

Some readers may be frightened by the size of these two volumes, totalling 1538 pages with a complex apparatus of footnotes and appendices (the many quotations from Goethe given in English translation are always substantiated with the German original text in footnotes).

Type
Critical Notices/Études critiques
Information
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , March 1966 , pp. 540 - 545
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1966

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References

1 By K. R. Eissler: Detroit; Wayne State University Press, 1963,2 vols., 1538 pages.