An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer

An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer
ISBN-10
0838621589
ISBN-13
9780838621585
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
234
Language
English
Published
1980
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Author
Andrew Gordon

Description

Interprets Mailer's fiction in much the same way as Freud analyzed the meaning of dreams in The Interpretation of Dreams. Applies the theories of human development and personality elaborated by such post-Freudians as Otto Fenichel, Melanie Klein and Erik Erikson and considers Mailer's own use in his fiction of the hypotheses of Freud and of Wilhelm Reich.

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