| Agnon's Story: A Psychoanalytic Biography of S. Y. Agnon Contributor(s): Falk, Avner (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004367772 ISBN-13: 9789004367777 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $194.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology |
| Series: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.8" H x 6.4" W x 9.4" (2.55 lbs) 774 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Agnon's Story is the first complete psychoanalytic biography of the Nobel-Prize-winning Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon. It investigates the hidden links between his stories and his biography. Agnon was deeply ambivalent about the most important emotional objects of his life, in particular his "father-teacher," his ailing, depressive and symbiotic mother, whom he left when she was very ill, and about whose death he felt guilty all his life, his emotionally-fragile wife, whom he named after his mother, and his adopted motherland, "the Land of Israel." Yet he maintained an incredible emotional resiliency and ability to sublimate his emotional pain into works of art. This biography seeks to investigate the unconscious emotional forces that drove his stories, his ambivalence about his family, and the underlying narcissistic grandiosity of his famous "modesty." |