Christa Wolf’s Richard Neutra
Architecture, Psychoanalysis, and Southern California in Stadt der Engel oder The Overcoat of Dr. Freud
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9854869 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Blankenship (Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures, California State University, Long Beach, California, USA), Robert E Blankenship (0000-0003-0879-9489, California State University, Long Beach, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55-64 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Germanic Review Literature Culture Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-8890 • E-ISSN: 1930-6962 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00168890.2019.1696507 |
| OpenAlex | W3001458032 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Christa Wolf’s novel Stadt der Engel oder The Overcoat of Dr. Freud has spawned an impressive amount of scholarly attention in less than a decade. However, two of the major themes of the novel—psychoanalysis and Southern California—remain underexplained. I provide a framework for better understanding both of those themes in the novel by connecting them by way of the role of Richard Neutra and his architecture in the novel. Neutra’s role in the novel has been almost entirely overlooked. Although he is not central to the novel, he does offer a way of understanding some of the more slippery themes of the novel
Art · Art history · Psychoanalysis · Visual arts · Architecture · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · German History and Society · Literature and Cultural Memory · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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