Romanticism anticipates Freud in its advocacy of something like a talking cure. William Wordsworth, for example, in discussing his long autobiographical Prelude, acknowledges that it is ‘a thing unprecedented in Literary history that a man should talk so much about himself’ (1967, p. 586). Elsewhere Wordsworth names as a ‘reasonable’ prerequisite for his poetic production the ‘review of his own Mind’ (2007, p. 38). In Romantic Psychoanalysis: The Burden of the Mystery, Joel Faflak considers the degree to which Romanticism's anticipation of the psychoanalytic project produces a kind of primal scene for psychoanalysis.