Download or read book The Split Self written by Peter Bruce Waldeck and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of the split self -- defined as a division of personality between an emancipated adult incapable of love and a child still endowed with this basic capacity but oppressed by the father figure -- is analyzed in a series of works of German literature.