Author/Editor		Zupančič, BM
Title		Literatura in psihoanaliza
Translated title		Literature and psychoanalysis
Type		članek
Source		In: Zupanič-Slavec Z, editor. Zbornik referatov Med medicino in literaturo. 1. Pintarjevi dnevi: srečanje medikohistorikov Alpe-Jadran; 1994 okt 14-15; Ljubljana. Ljubljana: Inštitut za zgodovino medicine,
Publication year		1994
Volume		str. 37-43
Language		slo
Abstract		The question is not whether psychoanalysis (especially Jungian) would reduce a certain literary work to the level of psychopathology. This could to a certain extent be true only in the first round of development. In the second round, which already exists, the men of letters themselves make ample use of psychoanalytical interpretation. The question here may be whether such transcription can in fact figure as art. In a way this is a useless question if the "artistic impression" of the literary materials so transcribed, despite the un-originality of those who inspire themselves with the psychoanalytical literature, is quite the same or even better when compared with the "true" literature. Through the popularization of psychological knowledge, however, something else is happening. Since the essence of neurosis lies in the lack of consciousness and the consequent self-delusion, the effect of of psychoanalysis is similar in its effect to the use of antibiotics. A sofisticated person today, for example, does not so easily become a victim of Freudian defense mechanisms. Due to that, deaper personality disturbances and deaper forms of alienation may come to the fore. The psychoanalysts, on the other hand, are tackling them with more sofisticated concepts and with more sofisticated therapeutic approaches. Alieantion and anomie are a sociological question and in the last analysis, as Marx already understood, a consequence of the fact that the individual alienation is positively correlated with the perfectuation of the product.
Descriptors		MEDICINE IN LITERATURE PSYCHOANALYSIS