Psychoanalysis and Autobiography. A Comparative Study of Sigmund Freud and Lou Andreas-Salome
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21520349
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
European literature (English literature excluded)
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| Research Institution | Meiji University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2011)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥130,000 (Direct Cost: ¥100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥30,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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| Keywords | 独文学 / 文学一般 / 精神分析 / 自伝 / フロイト / ルー・アンドレアス=ザロメ / アイデンティティ / 記憶 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study examined a complementary or oppositional relationship between psy-choanalysis and autobiography/biography as literary genre by comparing the works of Sigmund Freud(1856-1939) and Lou Andreas-Salome(1861-1937), a writer and his coworker, in the Psychoanalytic Movement. In addition, taking account of Freudian theories of memory, the study investigated whether psychoanalysis enabled both writers to transform a "narrative of life." Freud was skeptical about the nature of an autobiography, which is traditionally associated with a linearly evolving life story of an outstanding individual. He was less interested in writing his own autobiography, sug-gesting that the psychological studies of infantile memories included in autobiograph-ical works are much more important. In contrast, Andreas-Salome used various genres in autobiographical writing, such as psychoanalytic theoretical essays, novels, and autobiographies. She gave her own childhood memories a multilayered representation and transfigured them into a universal memory that should be shared by all.
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