TY - BOOK AU - Mordell,Albert TI - The Erotic Motive in Literature T2 - Routledge Library Editions: Literature and Sexuality Series SN - 9781351839495 AV - PN56.E7.M673 2017 U1 - 809.933538 PY - 2017/// CY - Oxford PB - Taylor & Francis Group KW - Erotic literature--History and criticism KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- I Introduction -- II Eroticism in Life -- III Dreams and Literature -- IV The Œdipus Complex and the Brother and Sister Complex -- V The Author Always Unconsciously in His Work -- VI Unconscious Consolatory Mechanisms in Authorship -- VII Projection, Villain Portrayals and Cynicism as Work of the Unconscious -- VIII Genius as a Product of the Unconscious -- IX Literary Emoticns and the Neuroses -- X The Infantile Love Life of the Author and its Sublimations -- XI Sexual Symbolism in Literature -- XII Cannibalism: The Atreus Legend -- XIII Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism -- XIV Keats' Personal Love Poems -- XV Shelley's Personal Love Poems -- XVI Psychoanalytic Study of Edgar Allan Poe -- XVII The Ideas of Lafcadio Hearn -- XVIII Conclusion N2 - This work, first published in 1919, is an endeavour to apply some of the methods of psychoanalysis to literature. It traces a writer's books back to the outward and inner events of their life and to reveal of their unconscious. This unconscious is largely identical with the mental love fantasies in our present and past life UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5092155 ER -