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Brenda Webster

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Brenda Webster was born in New York City, educated at Swarthmore College, Columbia University, and University of California, Berkeley, where she earned her Ph.D. She is a freelance writer, critic, and translater who splits her time between Berkeley and Rome, and she is the current president of PEN West.

Her latest novel, VIENNA TRIANGLE, explores the loves and rivalries in Sigmund Freud's inner circle that led to the death of his disciple Viktor Tausk.

Webster has written two controversial and oft-anthologized critical studies, Yeats: A Psychoanalytic Study (Stanford University Press) and Blake's Prophetic Psychology (Macmillan), and translated poetry from the Italian for The Other Voice (Norton) and The Penguin Book of Women Poets. She is c ...more

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Freud the Patriarch and Literary Critic

Freudianism is on the wane these days with a plethera of other therapies and drugs taking its place, but an area where it still makes sense is in literary criticism. I started introducing Psychoanalysis into my work in college, mainly looking for phallic symbols. By the time I was in graduate school I had extended my reach to pre-oedipal fantasies, oral and anal images and defenses.

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Published on February 25, 2009 10:30 • Tags: fiction, freud, psychoanalysis

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	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown, Burton Raffel (Translator), Brenda Webster (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.76 avg rating — 77,226 ratings — published 1375 — 125 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vienna Triangle 2.81 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Brenda Webster (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Burton Raffel (Translator) 4.21 avg rating — 43 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spot the Word : A Vocabulary Builder Game for Kids Age 7-13 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Auschwitz: A Love Story 2.91 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beheading Game 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sins of the Mothers 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yeats: A Psychoanalytic Study 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blake's Prophetic Psychology 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1984 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Freud once said that the only truly uncomplicated love relationship was between a mother and her son.”
― Brenda Webster, Vienna Triangle

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message 1: by Maria

Apr 21, 2009 05:21PM

Hi Brenda,
Totally bemused, I am entering yet another website here. How it works - god knows. (everyone else seems to know...but there is so much to figure out. it takes forever. the books we read,yes...

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