Goethe and Patriarchy : Faust and the Fates of Desire

Oxford: Legenda, 1998. Softcover. Good Condition. 13.8 x 21.6 x 2.2 cm. Cover shows minor surface damage , including superficial marks. Top edge slightly discoloured. Gift message to previous owner on first inside page. Internally clean and bright. Overall, a good used copy.Publisher's note: "This book traces the history of a complex sexual fantasy which features recurrently in Goethe's writings from his days as a student in Leipzig to the final years as Europe's most celebrated living poet. Simpson shows how the young man's fantasy of innocent sexuality became an increasingly troubled one during the poet's first decade in Weimar. Goethe began to recognize in it a submerged element: the incestuous roots of desire. Triggered by this discovery, Goethe's imagination becomes increasingly analytic and diagnostic, and startlingly prefigures the work of Freud. Yet, paradoxically, Goethe's insight leads him to a triumphant reassertion of an innocent sexuality purged of these elements he identifies as 'diseased'."--Jacket Size: 13.8 x 21.6 x 2.2 cm. 318 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832; Faust (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von); ISBN: 1900755041. ISBN/EAN: 9781900755047. Add. Inventory No: 231126JRQ002086. . 9781900755047