Dialogue about psychoanalysis and poetry (1946)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2038-6184/3466Keywords:
Poetry, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Freud, Literary criticism.Abstract
In 1946 the magazine "La Fiera letteraria" hosted two important essays dedicated to psychoanalysis and poetry. The first, written by Benedetto Croce, was a few pages letter, which substantially rejected the claims of novelty and originality of "Freudianism", especially in philosophy. The other was a much more detailed and articulate response by poet Umberto Saba, which instead appreciated the psychoanalysis (and not only as therapy).
We decided to republish these two texts by preceding them with two other brieg contributions by Benedetto Croce on psychoanalysis. The first is a review of the French translation of Freud's text on dream of 1903, and the second is a critical contemptuous of the "so-called stylistic criticism," that is put in relation with the Montessori method and to psychoanalysis
References
B. Croce, Di un caso di antimetodica costruzione dottrinale: la teoria del comico, in Id., Ultimi saggi, Laterza, Bari 1948.
B. Croce, Nuove pagine sparse, Vol. I, Laterza, Bari 1949
B. Croce, La poesia. Introduzione alla critica e storia della poesia e della letteratura, Laterza, Bari 1966.
M. David, La psicoanalisi nella cultura italiana, Boringhieri, Torino 1972.
G. De Ruggero, Filosofi del novecento, Laterza, Bari 1934.
F. Flora, Civiltà del novecento Laterza , Bari 1934.
S. Freud, Le rêve et son interprétation, trad. de l’allemand par Hélène Legros, Gallimard, Paris 1925.
U. Saba, Lettere sulla psicoanalisi, SE, Milano 1991.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2013 Benedetto Croce, Umberto Saba
Copyrights and publishing rights of all the texts on this journal belong to the respective authors without restrictions.
This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (full legal code).
See also our Open Access Policy.
