Goethe's Allegories of Identity

by Jane K. Brown

Book Overview

A century before psychoanalytic discourse codified a scientific language to describe the landscape of the mind, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe explored the paradoxes of an interior self separate from a conscious self. Though long acknowledged by the developers of depth psychology and by its historians, Goethe's literary rendering of interiority has not been the subject of detailed analysis in itself. Goethe's Allegories of Identity examines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812245822
• ISBN13: 9780812245820
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"