{"product_id":"goethes-allegories-of-identity-hardback-9780812245820","title":"Goethe's Allegories of Identity (Hardback) 9780812245820","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGoethe's Allegories of Identity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJane K. Brown (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812245820\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 February 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 4 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A marvel of a book. Rich and forcefully argued, \u003ci\u003eGoethe's Allegories of Identity\u003c\/i\u003e gives us a remarkably illuminating view of Goethe's oeuvre that is drawn in clear, sharp lines.\" (David E. Wellbery, University of Chicago)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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. \u003ci\u003eGoethe's Allegories of Identity\u003c\/i\u003e examines how Goethe created the essential bridge between the psychological insights of his contemporary, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the psychoanalytic theories of his admirer Sigmund Freud.\u003cbr\u003e Equally fascinated and repelled by Rousseau's vision of an unconscious self, Goethe struggled with the moral question of subjectivity: what is the relation of conscience to consciousness? To explore this inner conflict through language, Goethe developed a unique mode of allegorical representation that modernized the long tradition of dramatic personification in European drama. Jane K. Brown's deft, focused readings of Goethe's major dramas and novels, from \u003ci\u003eThe Sorrows of Young Werther\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eElective Affinities\u003c\/i\u003e, reveal each text's engagement with the concept of a subconscious or unconscious psyche whose workings are largely inaccessible to the rational mind. As Brown demonstrates, Goethe's representational strategies fashioned a language of subjectivity that deeply influenced the conceptions of important twentieth-century thinkers such as Freud, Michel Foucault, and Hannah Arendt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART I. THE PROBLEM\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Representing Subjectivity\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Goethe Contra Rousseau on Passion\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Goethe Contra Rousseau on Social Responsibility\u003cbr\u003e PART II. EXPERIMENTS IN SUBJECTIVITY\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Theatrical Self\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Scientific Self: Identity in \u003ci\u003eFaust\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. The Narrative Self\u003cbr\u003e PART III. THE LANGUAGE OF INTERIORITY\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Goethe's Angst\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. \"Es singen wohl die Nixen\": \u003ci\u003eWerther\u003c\/i\u003e and the Romantic Tale\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Goethe and the Uncanny\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Classicism and Goethe's Emotional Regime\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555718033688,"sku":"9780812245820","price":44.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/goethes-allegories-of-identity-hardback-9780812245820","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}