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Sigmund Freud ako nespoľahlivý rozprávač
Sigmund Freud as an Unreliable Narrator

Author(s): Adam Bžoch
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Ústav svetovej literatúry, Slovenská akadémia vied
Keywords: Sigmund Freud; Psychoanalysis; Elements of Theory of Narration; Unreliable narrator; Jensen; Sophocles; Shakespeare; Hoffmann

Summary/Abstract: Although classical psychoanalysis and its off-shoots has not brought any “theory or narration” that would become part of literary narratology, it has postulated several basic elements of “general psychoanalytic narratology” as implicit psychoanalytic theory of narration (the therapeutic function of narration, dialogic part, in-depth interpretation, the thematization of interpersonal relationships). At the same time, the article analyzes how the interpretation of the dynamic (narrative) aspect of literature has contributed to the creation of psychoanalytic theory itself and the role played by the reliability or unreliability of the narrator in it.

  • Issue Year: V/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 45-61
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Slovak
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