Reading after Freud. Essays on Goethe, Hölderlin, Habermas, Nietzsche, Brecht, Celan, and Freud PDF
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ON ESSAYS GOETHE, HOLDERLIN, HABERMAS, NIETZSCHE, BRECHT, CELAN, AND FREUD Reading After Freud ESSAYS ON GOETHE, HOLDERUN, HABERMAS, NIETZSCHE, BRECHT. CELAN, AND FREUD Rainer Nagele Using a wide range of German texts, these provocative essays trace the uncertain ground where psychoanalysis and literature meet and diverge. Investigating the consequences of reading in the aftermath of Freud’s work, this volume is neither an application ofpsy- choanalysis to literature, nor a theory of literature. Instead, Reading After Freud ana- lyzes the meaning of “after” and its effects on reading and historical organization. Rainer Nagele concludes that temporality and his- tory, concepts radically altered by Freud’s work, have become important tools for an understanding of the work of Goethe, Holderlin, Habermas, Nietzsche, Brecht. Celan, and even Freud himself. Beginning with a detailed critique ofKurt Eissler’s psychoanalytic study of Goethe, Nagele raises questions concerning the scene ofthe text and ofliterature. He pursues the idea of the text as “veil” and examines the relationship oftext and biography. Mov- ing from the private to public spheres, he follows the “path ofentanglement” between the poetic "I” and the voice of the people in Holderlin’s poem Stimme des Volks. Using Holderlin’s cautious acknowledge- ment ofthe public voice as a point ofcompari- son, Nagele confronts Habermas’ idealistic appraisal of the public sphere as the scene of rational discourse and his view of Freud and psychoanalysis as a path of reflection leading to the free transparent subject. The author then proceeds to explicate Nietzsche’s entangled vision of the subject, Brecht’s (Continued on back flap) BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Digitized by the Internet Archive 2016 with funding from in China-America Digital Academic Library (CADAL) https://archive.org/details/readingafterfreuOOnage READING AFTER FREUD Reading Freud After ON ESSAYS GOETHE, HOLDERLIN, HABERMAS, NIETZSCHE, BRECHT, CELAN, AND EREUD Rainer Nagele COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK 1987 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through a special grant, has assisted the Press in publishing this volume. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nagele, Rainer. Reading after Freud. Bibliography: p. Includes index. — 1. German literature History and criticism. 2. Psychoanalysis and literature. 3. Freud, Sigmund, — 1856-1939 Influence. Title. I. PT129.N34 1987 83079353 86-20730 ISBN 0-231-06286-9 Columbia University Press New York Guildford, Surrey © Copyright 1987 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Phis hook Smvth-sewn. is j Book design by j. S. Roberts
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