![]() ![]() ![]() Narcissism is incorporated into the intertextual nexus, but without replacing Narcissus. In this article, I argue that while the narrative frame of the Narcissus myth is broken up in the novel, it remains poetically productive. Hesse had an intimate, but not uncritical, relationship with psychoanalysis, and his novel provides an interesting illustration of how the Narcissus reference was used in the direct aftermath of Freud's conceptualisation. This article examines in particular the Narcissus reference in Hermann Hesse's novel Narziß und Goldmund (1930). This prompts the question of whether, or to what extent, Freud's theory influenced subsequent literary treatments of the theme. 270-296 Article in journal (Refereed) Published Abstract įreud's theory of narcissism, developed in the 1910s and 1920s, can be seen as a radical break with the Narcissus tradition in that the myth of Narcissus is turned into a theory about man's psychosexual constitution. ![]()
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