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Psychoanalysis is presented as a development in Western intellectual thought and modification of the autobiographical genre.
Weintraub suggests that the pre-Enlightenment self-narrative genre (confessions, dreams, memories) evolved into autobiography with the confluence of two relatively independent views of the individual: (1) His/her importance to society; (2) His/her development.