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The self as muse : narcissism and creativity in the German imagination, 1750-1830 /
While there are countless philosophical and psychological studies that focus on sources of the self, narcissism - the creation of an ideal image of the self and the vain attempt to merge with it - has found relatively little attention in a pre-Freudian context. The Self as Muse fills this gap by exa...
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Lewisburg [Pa.] : Lanham, Md. :
Bucknell University Press ; Co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
c2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Narcissism and the self: an introduction / Alexander Mathäs
- Part I: Narcissism and the senses. Narcissism and the sublime / Alexander Mathäs;
- Narcissism, the self, and empathy: the paradox that created modern literature / Fritz Breithaupt
- Part II: Narcissism and morality. Self-reflection and knowledge of self in Hamann's early philosophical and aesthetic writings / F. Corey Roberts; Narcissistic investments and transformations in Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel's Lebenslaufe nach aufsteigender Linie and Über die Ehe / Ann Schmiesing; "Some day my prince will come": Fürstenspiegel and the bourgeois writer / Gail K. Hart
- Part III: Over and against Freud. Werther's sentimental narcissism: consciousness, communication, and the origin of the modern psyche / Edgar Landgraf;
- "I suffered and I loved": narcissism and abject desire in Goethe's "Confessions of a beautiful soul" / Susan Gustafson
- Part IV: Reading and writing narcissism. Textual narcissism in Kleist's "Über das Marionettentheater" / Richard Block; That Specter in my name: writing and its mirror effects in Hoffmann and Poe / Martin Klebes.