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Sigmund Freud, das Junge Wien und der frühe Robert Musil
  • Oliver Pfohlmann
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2023/2024
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Abstract

The reception of psychoanalysis by the early Robert Musil, who did not have the benefit of living in Vienna at this time, was almost synchronous with that of the representatives of Viennese modernism, including a striking shift from initial symbiosis to competition, from affirmation to rejection, after 1907/08. In Musil’s case, this led to one of the most exciting narrative experiments of literary modernism, an aesthetic attempt to save literature from what was, in his eyes, a hostile coup instigated by Freud. This early engagement with Freud distinguishes Musil from other representatives of literary modernism not based in Vienna, such as Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Alfred Döblin, and Franz Kafka, none of whom engaged with psychoanalysis until the years after 1910.

Abstract

The reception of psychoanalysis by the early Robert Musil, who did not have the benefit of living in Vienna at this time, was almost synchronous with that of the representatives of Viennese modernism, including a striking shift from initial symbiosis to competition, from affirmation to rejection, after 1907/08. In Musil’s case, this led to one of the most exciting narrative experiments of literary modernism, an aesthetic attempt to save literature from what was, in his eyes, a hostile coup instigated by Freud. This early engagement with Freud distinguishes Musil from other representatives of literary modernism not based in Vienna, such as Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Alfred Döblin, and Franz Kafka, none of whom engaged with psychoanalysis until the years after 1910.

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