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The Erotic Motive in Literature

by Albert Mordell

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  1. 1Chapter I — Introduction
  2. 2Chapter II — Eroticism in Life
  3. 3Chapter III — Dreams and Literature
  4. 4Chapter IV — The Œdipus Complex and the Brother and Sister Complex
  5. 5Chapter V — The Author Always Unconsciously in His Work
  6. 6Chapter VI — Unconscious Consolatory Mechanisms in Authorship
  7. 7Chapter VII — Projection, Villain Portrayals and Cynicism as Work o…
  8. 8Chapter VIII — Genius as a Product of the Unconscious
  9. 9Chapter IX — Literary Emotions and the Neuroses
  10. 10Chapter X — The Infantile Love Life of the Author and Its Sublimations
  11. 11Chapter XI — Sexual Symbolism in Literature
  12. 12Chapter XII — Cannibalism: The Atreus Legend
  13. 13Chapter XIII — Some Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism
  14. 14Chapter XIV — Keats’s Personal Love Poems
  15. 15Chapter XV — Shelley’s Personal Love Poems
  16. 16Chapter XVI — Edgar Allan Poe
  17. 17Chapter XVII — The Ideas of Lafcadio Hearn
  18. 18Chapter XVIII — Conclusion

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