Agnon?s Story
A Psychoanalytic Biography of S. Y. Agnon
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 30 January 2020
- ISBN 9789004425422
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages766 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 1149 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon won the Nobel prize in literature in 1966. Hundreds of literary studies and one Hebrew-language biography have been published about him. This is the first complete psychoanalytic biography in any language.
MoreLong description:
Agnon?s Story is the first complete psychoanalytic biography of the Nobel-Prize-winning Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon. It investigates the hidden links between his stories and his biography. Agnon was deeply ambivalent about the most important emotional objects of his life, in particular his ?father-teacher," his ailing, depressive and symbiotic mother, whom he left when she was very ill, and about whose death he felt guilty all his life, his emotionally-fragile wife, whom he named after his mother, and his adopted motherland, ?the Land of Israel." Yet he maintained an incredible emotional resiliency and ability to sublimate his emotional pain into works of art.
This biography seeks to investigate the unconscious emotional forces that drove his stories, his ambivalence about his family, and the underlying narcissistic grandiosity of his famous ?modesty.?
"A brief review of Falk?s lengthy biography cannot possibly do justice to the book?s full complexity and richness. For those individuals keen to know all about Agnon?s life and personality, warts and all, this book is heartily recommended." - David Rodman, Independent Scholar,Israeli Affairs, 2019, DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2019.1670459.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction: The Mind of S.Y. Agnon
1 The Home Town as Mother
2 The Land of Israel as the Idealized Mother
3 The Adoptive German Motherland
4 The Wife as Mother
5 A Daughter Named Faith
6 Catastrophic Change and Traumatic Flight
7 The Nobel Prize as Mother?s Love
8 Escape to Germany
9 Back to the Dead Mother
10 The Turning Point: Agnon, Kafka and Freud
11 The Writer, His Wife, and Her Psychoanalyst
12 Agnon vs. Freud: Hostility and Fascination
13 The Middle
-Aged Hebrew Writer
14 Nobel Ambitions and the Quest for Mother?s Love
15 A Heart Attack in Sweden
16 My Way of Life is Fallen into the Sere, the Yellow Leaf
17 Losses, Eulogies and Stories
18 The ?Jewish Messiah? and the ?King of Flesh and Blood?
Epilogue: After Life?s Fitful Fever
Figures
Bibliography
Index
