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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.
Jul 3, 2024 · Freud's analysis in "Delusions and Dreams in Jensen's 'Gradiva'" explores the psychological motivations behind the protagonist's delusions and dream-like experiences.
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 ...
Aug 13, 2023 · DELUSION AND DREAM. In analyzing Jensen’s Gradiva, Freud is initially intrigued by whether the author (or authors in a more general way) could have been aware of psychic phenomena such as dreams and delusions and psychic conditions such as neurosis when he developed the plot.
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 Jensen's Gradiva, mater nuda is revived without the 'Entfremdungsgefühl' [feeling of derealization ], which had seized Freud two years earlier” (p. 646).
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This short story lends itself particularly well to that kind of demonstration, because the adventures which the hero, an archaeologist called Hanold, experiences in his dreams and delusions can be looked upon in much the same way as a psychoanalyst would study the development of a clinical condition as observed in a patient. In addition, there ...
