Sigmund Freud – Portrait of a writer

Authors

  • Walter Jens

Abstract

Based on a lecture by Wilhelm Stekel on the premiere of the play ‘Griselda’ (1909) by Gerhard Hauptmann and the following discussion in the so-called Wednesday society, Freud’s ambivalent relationship to poets –as a doctor and as a writer– is elaborated.

Keywords:

Psychoanalysis, Literature, Case history, Literary creation