Ursula Mahlendorf
Biographic Data
| ID | 318241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ursula Mahlendorf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ursula |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahlendorf |
| SIGNATURE | MAHLENDORF U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Structural and Intertextual Reading of Freud’s “On Dreams”
By using the framework of a "quest" narrative based on literary allusions to Virgil's Aeneid and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Freud transformed the 500 pages of The Interpretation of Dreams into some fifty pages entitled "On Dreams." This paper elucidates the narrative means by which Freud achieved the feat of turning a highly complex, lengthy theoretical work into an engaging narrative. Its main plot, provided by a specimen dream, …
Zwischen Gestern und Morgen
Weiter Leben
Emotion and False Consciousness
This article describes the way in which emotion can lead to false consciousness by analysing a single incident in Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. We trace a sequence of events which occur after the hero is humiliated in public, utilizing Helen Lewis's theory of shame dynamics. We argue that such an analysis may led towards models of causality in social science. Our interpretation of class idealization in the mass media, myths and leg…
The Wellsprings of Literary Creation
Essays that are models of psychoanalytic literary criticism, stressing the writer's life as a source of creativity
Psychoanalytische Literaturinterpretationen
The Wounded Self
She never loved Achilles,' or Die absolute Leidenschaft ihrer Liebe2 are but two of a host of contradictory interpretations of Penthesilea.'3 In addition to the lack of agreement on even the most basic issues of meaning, the play presents formal-technical difficulties which have never been resolved. While this drama shows the extraordinary speed and density of action that is typical of Kleist's plays, the meaning and function of such concentratio…
Literatur und Schizophrenie
Where the Air Throbs
The Myth of Evil
NotesAll quotations from the diaries of Heym are from Dichtungen und Schriften: Tagebücher, Träume und Briefe, ed. Karl Ludwig Schneider (Hamburg: Ellermann, 1960), Vol. III. Cited as Schriften..Hölderlin, trans. Michael Hamburger (New York: Pantheon Books, 1952), p. 151.Expressionism in German Life, Literature and the Theatre (Cambridge: Heffer, 1939), p. 119.Kasimir Edschmid, “Über den dichterischen Expressionismus,” Frühe Manifeste (Hamburg: W…
Weiter Leben
Emotion and False Consciousness
This article describes the way in which emotion can lead to false consciousness by analysing a single incident in Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. We trace a sequence of events which occur after the hero is humiliated in public, utilizing Helen Lewis's theory of shame dynamics. We argue that such an analysis may led towards models of causality in social science. Our interpretation of class idealization in the mass media, myths and leg…
The Myth of Evil
NotesAll quotations from the diaries of Heym are from Dichtungen und Schriften: Tagebücher, Träume und Briefe, ed. Karl Ludwig Schneider (Hamburg: Ellermann, 1960), Vol. III. Cited as Schriften..Hölderlin, trans. Michael Hamburger (New York: Pantheon Books, 1952), p. 151.Expressionism in German Life, Literature and the Theatre (Cambridge: Heffer, 1939), p. 119.Kasimir Edschmid, “Über den dichterischen Expressionismus,” Frühe Manifeste (Hamburg: W…
Where the Air Throbs
Literatur und Schizophrenie
The Wounded Self
She never loved Achilles,' or Die absolute Leidenschaft ihrer Liebe2 are but two of a host of contradictory interpretations of Penthesilea.'3 In addition to the lack of agreement on even the most basic issues of meaning, the play presents formal-technical difficulties which have never been resolved. While this drama shows the extraordinary speed and density of action that is typical of Kleist's plays, the meaning and function of such concentratio…
Psychoanalytische Literaturinterpretationen
The Wellsprings of Literary Creation
Essays that are models of psychoanalytic literary criticism, stressing the writer's life as a source of creativity
Emotion and False Consciousness
This article describes the way in which emotion can lead to false consciousness by analysing a single incident in Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. We trace a sequence of events which occur after the hero is humiliated in public, utilizing Helen Lewis's theory of shame dynamics. We argue that such an analysis may led towards models of causality in social science. Our interpretation of class idealization in the mass media, myths and leg…
Weiter Leben
Zwischen Gestern und Morgen
A Structural and Intertextual Reading of Freud’s “On Dreams”
By using the framework of a "quest" narrative based on literary allusions to Virgil's Aeneid and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Freud transformed the 500 pages of The Interpretation of Dreams into some fifty pages entitled "On Dreams." This paper elucidates the narrative means by which Freud achieved the feat of turning a highly complex, lengthy theoretical work into an engaging narrative. Its main plot, provided by a specimen dream, …
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