Freud and the Imaginative World

Trosman demonstrates how Freud's cultural and humanistic commitments guided his pursuit of a science of mind. Focusing especially on the literary and artistic models available to Freud, Trosman undertakes a number of tasks: to place Freud within the form

Harry Trosman, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago, and a faculty member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.

I. The Claims of Humanism - Influence and Identity 1. Freud and the Formative Culture 2. Natural Sciences and Human Concerns 3. Modes of Influence on Freud's Creativity 4. Artistic and Neurotic Fantasy 5. A Claim Avowed: Freud's Jewish Identity II. Psychoanalysis and the Arts 6. Freud's Style and the Matter of Style 7. The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Response 8. Comparative Views of Leonardo da Vinci and Psychoanalytic Biography 9. Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism: Hamlet as Prototype 10. Psychoanalytic Views of Creativity