Reading Riddles: Rhetorics Of Obscurity From Romanticism To Freud (new Studies In The Age Of Goethe)
by Brian Tucker /
2010 / English / EPUB
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Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to
Freud
Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to
Freud explores how the riddle becomes a figure for reading and
writing in early German Romanticism and how this model then enables
Sigmund Freud's approach to the psyche. It traces a migration of
ideas from literature to psychoanalysis and argues that the
relationship between them must be situated at the methodological
level. Through readings of texts by August Wilhelm, Friedrich
Schlegel, G.W.F. Hegel, and Ludwig Tieck
explores how the riddle becomes a figure for reading and
writing in early German Romanticism and how this model then enables
Sigmund Freud's approach to the psyche. It traces a migration of
ideas from literature to psychoanalysis and argues that the
relationship between them must be situated at the methodological
level. Through readings of texts by August Wilhelm, Friedrich
Schlegel, G.W.F. Hegel, and Ludwig TieckReading Riddles
Reading Riddles
documents how the Romantics expand the field of poetic
signification to include obscure, distorted signs and how they
applied this rhetoric of obscurity to the self. The book argues
that this model of self and signification plays a central role in
the formulation of Freud's psychoanalytic theory. If the self is a
riddle, as many in the nineteenth century claim, Freud takes the
figure seriously and interprets the mind according to all the
structures and techniques of that textual genre.
documents how the Romantics expand the field of poetic
signification to include obscure, distorted signs and how they
applied this rhetoric of obscurity to the self. The book argues
that this model of self and signification plays a central role in
the formulation of Freud's psychoanalytic theory. If the self is a
riddle, as many in the nineteenth century claim, Freud takes the
figure seriously and interprets the mind according to all the
structures and techniques of that textual genre.
