The biography of a creative artist differs as an object of psychoanalytic study from a living subject. True, it may be possible to demonstrate that the artist (like other human beings) had an Oedipus complex, or possibly a neurosis, and even to gain hints of the origin and structure of such a neurosis. But such an achievement would at most show that dead men can be "analyzed". Except in the most general way, however, the most minute analysis of a poet's creation combined with a thorough knowledge of his