Imago (novel)
Author | Carl Spitteler |
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Country | Switzerland |
Language | German |
Genre | Fiction |
Published | 1906 |
Publisher | E. Diederichs |
Pages | 229 |
Imago is a 1906 autobiographical novel by Carl Spitteler. Spitteler's only novel, it tells of how a young writer returns to a small town where, four years earlier, he had met a woman who became his muse... only to learn that, in his absence, she has married someone else.
Influence[]
The book was cited by Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Hanns Sachs as a contributory factor in the early development of psychoanalysis.[1] Charles Baudouin proposed that Spitteler's prose works are intended as "commentaries on his major poems", and observed that Imago is "puzzling" unless read from this viewpoint.[2]
References[]
- ^ The Freudian Calling: Early Viennese Psychoanalysis and the Pursuit of Cultural Science, by Louise Rose; published 1998 by Wayne State University Press
- ^ Contemporary Studies, by Charles Baudouin, originally published 1924; reprinted 2015 by Routledge
External links[]
- Text of the novel at Archive.org
Categories:
- 1906 novels
- Swiss novels
- Autobiographical novels
- 1900s novel stubs