I suppose most people who read Wilhelm Jensen’s short novel Gradiva these days come to it, as I did, by way of Freud’s paper “Dream and Delusion in Jensen’s Gradiva,” probably the least interesting of Freud’s attempts at practical literary criticism. It’s not without its merits, and as with many of his papers, it’s interesting for the often-remarked per…
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