On Creativity and the Unconscious (Papers on the Psychology of Art, Literature, Love, Religion) (Harper Torchbooks TB 45)

x, 310 pp. Selected, with introduction and annotations, by Benjamin Nelson. On Creativity and the Unconscious brings together Freud's important essays on the many expressions of creativity - including art, literature, love, dreams, and spirituality. Contents include: Introduction to the Torchbook Edition; Introductory - One of the Difficulties of Psycho-Analysis; The Moses of Michelangelo; A Mythological Parallel to a Visual Obsession; The Relation of the Poet to Day-Dreaming; The Antithetical Sense of Primal Words; The Theme of the Three Caskets; The Occurrence in Dreams of Material from Fairy Tales; Some Character-Types Met with in Psycho-Analytic Work; A Childhood Recollection from Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit (Poetry & Truth); The 'Uncanny'; Three Contributions to the Psychology of Love: A Special Type of Choice of Object Made by Men; The Most Prevalent Form of Degradation in Erotic Life; The Taboo of Virginity; Thoughts for the Times on War and Death; Dreams and Telepathy; A Neurosis of Demoniacal Possession in the Seventeenth Century; Abbreviations; Selected References; Annotations; Index.