“Death Is a Corpse”: Freud’s Reading of Rudolph Kleinpaul
Cotti, Patricia
“Death Is a Corpse”: Freud’s Reading of Rudolph Kleinpaul - 2004.
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When Freud read Kleinpaul’s book Die Lebendigen und die Toten in 1897, he borrowed an expression—“Death is a corpse”—which helped him to underline that the representations and thoughts of death conceal sexual wishes. After translating some passages of Kleinpaul’s book, we will show that “death is a corpse” remained a Freudian leitmotiv until Freud’s turnaround in 1912, when he argued that the sexual desire for a beautiful and silent woman conceals thoughts about death itself.
“Death Is a Corpse”: Freud’s Reading of Rudolph Kleinpaul - 2004.
40
When Freud read Kleinpaul’s book Die Lebendigen und die Toten in 1897, he borrowed an expression—“Death is a corpse”—which helped him to underline that the representations and thoughts of death conceal sexual wishes. After translating some passages of Kleinpaul’s book, we will show that “death is a corpse” remained a Freudian leitmotiv until Freud’s turnaround in 1912, when he argued that the sexual desire for a beautiful and silent woman conceals thoughts about death itself.
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