1st Edition

On the Way Home Conversations Between Writers and Psychoanalysts

By Marie Bridge Copyright 2007
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

Literature was present at the birth of psychoanalysis. When Freud made his momentous discovery of the Oedipus complex within himself and his patients, he recognised that this psychic configuration had already been depicted in Sophocles's tragedy. The father of psychoanalysis wrote "The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious...What I discovered was only the scientific method... Read more
Introduction -- Rose Tremain in conversation with Margot Waddell -- A.S. Byatt in conversation with Ignês Sodré -- Brenda Maddox in conversation with Helen Taylor Robinson -- Philip Pullman in conversation with Marie Bridge

Biography

Marie Bridge