Writing Through Repression: Literature, Censorship, Psychoanalysis

by Michael G. Levine

Levine (comparative literature, Yale U.) explores the difficulty Freud had in coming to terms with (and bringing to words) the notion of a dream as a censored text. He juxtaposes psychoanalytic, literary, and critical writings to illuminate Freud's connection with the work of Heine, Benjamin, and Kafka. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

232 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1994

About the author

Michael Levine is Associate Professor of German, Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust Survival (Stanford University Press, 2006) and Writing Through Repression: Literature, Censorship, Psychoanalysis (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994). His essays on survivor testimony and artistic responses to the Shoah have appeared in American Imago, New German Critique, Considering Maus: Approaches to Art Spiegelman’s “Survivor’s Tale” of the Holocaust, and the MLA volume Teaching the Representaion of the Holocaust. His new book, A Weak Messianic Power: Benjamin, Kafka, Celan, and Roth is under contract with Fordham University Press.