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Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva (German: Der Wahn und die Träume in W. Jensens "Gradiva") is an essay written in 1907 by Sigmund Freud that subjects the novel Gradiva by Wilhelm Jensen, and especially its protagonist, to psychoanalysis.
Feb 15, 2014 · Jensen’s brilliant and unique story of Gradiva has not only literary merit of very high order, but may be said to open up a new field for romance. It is the story of a young archæologist who suffered a very characteristic mental disturbance and was gradually but effectively cured by a kind of native psychotherapeutic instinct, which probably ...
It is the story of Norbert Hanold, a young archeologist obsessed with his work for whom women do not exist. Visiting a museum, he is struck by the beauty of a bas-relief of young Roman woman, very light on her feet, whom he baptized "Gradiva" (she who walks). He purchases a reproduction, which he hangs on the wall of his workroom.
In 1906, when Freud wrote Delusions and Dreams, his. interpretation of Wilhelm Jensen's novel Gradiva (1903) which had been recommended to him by Jung, he was pleased to find. ample literary support for his theories of infantile sexuality, repression and the role of the dream in intra-psychic life and confined his remarks generally to these topics.
Freud, S. (1907) Delusions and Dreams in Jensen's Gradiva. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud 9:1-96
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It was inspired by a Roman bas-relief of the same name and became the basis for Sigmund Freud 's famous 1907 study Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva ( German: "Der Wahn und die Träume in W. Jensen's Gradiva" ).
