PEP | Article - Psychoanalytische Schriften Zur Literatur Und Kunst. Ausgewahlt Und Herausgegeben Von Egenolf Roeder Von Diersburg. (Psychoanalytic Writings about Literature and Art. Selected and Edited by Egenolf Roeder Von Diersburg.): By Georg Groddeck. Weisbaden: Limes Publisher, 1964. 338 pp. Illus.

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Abstract

The psychoanalyst will find this an informative selection from Georg Groddeck's writings. Egenolf Roeder von Diersburg tries to introduce Groddeck and to help in the transition from chapter to chapter—but does so in an old-fashioned, schoolmasterish way, complicated by a Germanic style thought to have been outmoded fifty years ago but which seems to persist. It stands in strange contrast to the language used by Groddeck himself who, like Freud, was a master of the German language.

The selection shows Groddeck at his best, emphasizing his enormous capabilities and his incredible knowledge of linguistics, history, art, literature, mythology, philosophy, and medicine. Groddeck's wisdom in its more gentle form is shown; Groddeck's wildness, his

PEP | Article - Psychoanalytische Schriften Zur Literatur Und Kunst. Ausgewahlt Und Herausgegeben Von Egenolf Roeder Von Diersburg. (Psychoanalytic Writings about Literature and Art. Selected and Edited by Egenolf Roeder Von Diersburg.): By Georg Groddeck. Weisbaden: Limes Publisher, 1964. 338 pp. Illus. - Grotjahn, Martin