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The Resource Fatherland : Novalis, Freud, and the discipline of romance, Kenneth S. Calhoon

Fatherland : Novalis, Freud, and the discipline of romance, Kenneth S. Calhoon

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  • Fatherland analyzes the origins of German Romanticism and the works of Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenherg, 1772-1801). In his introduction, Kenneth Calhoon writes, "This study examines Romanticism and psychoanalysis in terms of a shared economy of longing and disappointment of which mourning is a profound index."
  • Whereas most recent studies of Novalis have concentrated on his poetic and philosophical theories, Calhoon explores the psychological implications of his writings. He places Freud and Novalis in the debate currently raging in Germany about the legacy of the Enlightenment. Instead of grounding his research on Freudian theory itself, Calhoon focuses on a radicalization of the Enlightenment's quest by diverting attention to those regions of the mind where it still seemed possible to choose one's own parents. "Family Romance," Freud's image for describing how children who have grown to doubt the identity of a father and idealize their origins through fantasies of heroic illegitimacy, suggests the emplotment of such identity crises as Romantic Journey
  • As such, it provides a map for reading Novalis's novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen, in which the father - as fatherland - is rediscovered only after an elaborate circumnavigation of the maternal body. This book addresses, in addition to the writings of Novalis and Freud, works by Coleridge ("Kubla Khan"), Goethe ("Erlkonig," Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre), Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man), Lessing (Nathan der Weise, Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts), and P. O. Runge (Fall des Vaterlands)
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
188 pages
Contents
  • 4.
  • The Stones Speak! The Romantic Archaeology of the Psyche
  • 5.
  • Allegories of Plot
  • 6.
  • "Kubla Khan" and the Oriental Hallucination
  • Epilogue: The Romantic Mother and the Fatherless Society
  • Translation.
  • Abbreviations
  • 1.
  • The Politics of Infanticide: Goethe's "Erlkonig"
  • 2.
  • The Political Novalis
  • 3.
  • The Philosophical Unconscious
Isbn
9780814323670
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Fatherland : Novalis, Freud, and the discipline of romance
Title
Fatherland
Title remainder
Novalis, Freud, and the discipline of romance
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Kenneth S. Calhoon
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Language
eng
Summary
  • Fatherland analyzes the origins of German Romanticism and the works of Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenherg, 1772-1801). In his introduction, Kenneth Calhoon writes, "This study examines Romanticism and psychoanalysis in terms of a shared economy of longing and disappointment of which mourning is a profound index."
  • Whereas most recent studies of Novalis have concentrated on his poetic and philosophical theories, Calhoon explores the psychological implications of his writings. He places Freud and Novalis in the debate currently raging in Germany about the legacy of the Enlightenment. Instead of grounding his research on Freudian theory itself, Calhoon focuses on a radicalization of the Enlightenment's quest by diverting attention to those regions of the mind where it still seemed possible to choose one's own parents. "Family Romance," Freud's image for describing how children who have grown to doubt the identity of a father and idealize their origins through fantasies of heroic illegitimacy, suggests the emplotment of such identity crises as Romantic Journey
  • As such, it provides a map for reading Novalis's novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen, in which the father - as fatherland - is rediscovered only after an elaborate circumnavigation of the maternal body. This book addresses, in addition to the writings of Novalis and Freud, works by Coleridge ("Kubla Khan"), Goethe ("Erlkonig," Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre), Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man), Lessing (Nathan der Weise, Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts), and P. O. Runge (Fall des Vaterlands)
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1956-
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Calhoon, Kenneth Scott
Dewey number
809/.9145
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PN56.P92
LC item number
C35 1992
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Kritik Detroit, Mich
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  • Literature
  • Psychoanalysis and literature
  • German literature
  • Romanticism
  • Fathers in literature
  • Autonomy (Psychology) in literature
  • Novalis
  • Letterkunde
  • Romantiek
  • Psychoanalyse
  • Vaderschap
  • Romantik
  • Literatur
  • Letterkunde
  • Psychoanalyse
  • Romantiek
  • Vaderschap
  • Deutsch
Label
Fatherland : Novalis, Freud, and the discipline of romance, Kenneth S. Calhoon
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-184) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • 4.
  • The Stones Speak! The Romantic Archaeology of the Psyche
  • 5.
  • Allegories of Plot
  • 6.
  • "Kubla Khan" and the Oriental Hallucination
  • Epilogue: The Romantic Mother and the Fatherless Society
  • Translation.
  • Abbreviations
  • 1.
  • The Politics of Infanticide: Goethe's "Erlkonig"
  • 2.
  • The Political Novalis
  • 3.
  • The Philosophical Unconscious
Control code
25009457
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
188 pages
Isbn
9780814323670
Isbn Type
(alk. paper)
Lccn
91039468
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(WaOLN)1459556
Label
Fatherland : Novalis, Freud, and the discipline of romance, Kenneth S. Calhoon
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-184) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • 4.
  • The Stones Speak! The Romantic Archaeology of the Psyche
  • 5.
  • Allegories of Plot
  • 6.
  • "Kubla Khan" and the Oriental Hallucination
  • Epilogue: The Romantic Mother and the Fatherless Society
  • Translation.
  • Abbreviations
  • 1.
  • The Politics of Infanticide: Goethe's "Erlkonig"
  • 2.
  • The Political Novalis
  • 3.
  • The Philosophical Unconscious
Control code
25009457
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
188 pages
Isbn
9780814323670
Isbn Type
(alk. paper)
Lccn
91039468
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(WaOLN)1459556

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