Download or read book Narcissism and Paranoia in the Age of Goethe written by Alexander Mathäs and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The analyses of poems, narratives, dramas, and critical texts by Moritz, Schiller, Herder, Tieck, Goethe, Lavater, and others shed new light on how progress in the medical, philosophical, and anthropological discourses of the time converge with aesthetic and literary considerations." "The volume illustrates how aspects of Freud's psychology have grown out of notions of subjectivity not confined to the Victorian age, as is often assumed, but with roots in the contradicting values of bourgeois emancipation."--Jacket.