The Unconscious in Philosophy, and French and European Literature : Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

Vial, Fernand | Barral, Mary Rose | Valahu, Dan T 2009 Value Inquiry Book Series, 203 ( Serie ) Amsterdam : Rodopi 9789042029217 | BRILL9789042029217 Abstract

This book traces the idea of the unconscious as it emerges in French and European literature. It discusses the functioning of the normal unconscious mind and provides examples of the abnormal unconscious in poems and literature. Psychiatric cases as they are understood today are illustrated as mirrored in literature describing the functioning of the disturbed mind.