'Psychological' -- from Moll Flanders to Clarissa

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sat Oct 2 16:00:01 PDT 1999


Doug added:
>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>To paraphrase Pfister, Freud doesn't, for instance, 'explain' psychological
>>novels (and other modern cultural and social artifacts); the latter
>>contributed to the making of Freud.
>
>"The poets were there before me." - Freud

Yes, but Freud wrongly thought that he could use ancient poets to illustrate the modern psychological space, as Carrol noted.

Yoshie



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