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Agnon's Story

A Psychoanalytic Biography of S. Y. Agnon

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-90-04-36777-7
Verlag: Brill
Erscheinungstermin: 01.11.2018
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Agnon’s Story is the first complete psychoanalytic biography of the Nobel-Prize-winning Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon. It investigates the hidden links between his stories and his biography. Agnon was deeply ambivalent about the most important emotional objects of his life, in particular his “father-teacher," his ailing, depressive and symbiotic mother, whom he left when she was very ill, and about whose death he felt guilty all his life, his emotionally-fragile wife, whom he named after his mother, and his adopted motherland, “the Land of Israel." Yet he maintained an incredible emotional resiliency and ability to sublimate his emotional pain into works of art.
This biography seeks to investigate the unconscious emotional forces that drove his stories, his ambivalence about his family, and the underlying narcissistic grandiosity of his famous “modesty.”


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9789004367777
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-90-04-36777-7
  • Verlag: Brill
  • Erscheinungstermin: 01.11.2018
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2018
  • Serie: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 1157 g
  • Seiten: 766
  • Format (B x H x T): 163 x 239 x 46 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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Autoren

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction: The Mind of S.Y. Agnon

1 The Home Town as Mother

2 The Land of Israel as the Idealized Mother

3 The Adoptive German Motherland

4 The Wife as Mother

5 A Daughter Named Faith

6 Catastrophic Change and Traumatic Flight

7 The Nobel Prize as Mother’s Love

8 Escape to Germany

9 Back to the Dead Mother

10 The Turning Point: Agnon, Kafka and Freud

11 The Writer, His Wife, and Her Psychoanalyst

12 Agnon vs. Freud: Hostility and Fascination

13 The Middle-Aged Hebrew Writer

14 Nobel Ambitions and the Quest for Mother’s Love

15 A Heart Attack in Sweden

16 My Way of Life is Fallen into the Sere, the Yellow Leaf

17 Losses, Eulogies and Stories

18 The “Jewish Messiah” and the “King of Flesh and Blood”

Epilogue: After Life’s Fitful Fever

Figures

Bibliography

Index