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In the period of psychic turmoil after his father’s death in 1896, Freud engaged in an activity of profound self-questioning that led to the establishment of a new discipline that provided him with much-needed resources: a livelihood and professional identity, accompanied by a sense of personal mission or destiny. As a medical scientist trained in the field of neurology, Freud considered his achievement to be scientific, universally applicable, and valid across time. I prefer to call attention to the ways in which it may be viewed as a form of literary endeavor. Such an approach, while limiting some paths of investigation of the relations between psychoanalysis and literature—fields too broad to examine in the totality of their interactions—will, I believe, illuminate one important aspect of their inter--involvement over the course of the 20th century: the construction of personal subjectivity.
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