The Erotic Motive in Literature

by Albert Mordell

Copyright, 1919,
By Boni & Liveright, Inc.

First printing, May, 1919

Second printing, July, 1919

Printed in the U. S. A.

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CONTENTS

	CHAPTER	PAGE
I	Introduction	[1]
II	Eroticism in Life	[20]
III	Dreams and Literature	[31]
IV	The Œdipus Complex and the Brother and Sister Complex	[51]
V	The Author Always Unconsciously in His Work	[63]
VI	Unconscious Consolatory Mechanisms in Authorship	[83]
VII	Projection, Villain Portrayals and Cynicism as Work of the Unconscious	[97]
VIII	Genius as a Product of the Unconscious	[107]
IX	Literary Emotions and the Neuroses	[118]
X	The Infantile Love Life of the Author and its Sublimations	[132]
XI	Sexual Symbolism in Literature	[150]
XII	Cannibalism: The Atreus Legend	[172]
XIII	Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism	[179]
XIV	Keats' Personal Love Poems	[199]
XV	Shelley's Personal Love Poems	[209]
XVI	Psychoanalytic Study of Edgar Allan Poe	[220]
XVII	The Ideas of Lafcadio Hearn	[237]
XVIII	Conclusion	[244]

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