Writings on Art and Literature (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

Niel Hertz has brought together a valuable collection of Freud's writings on literature. He uses the notes from the Standard Edition as well as the texts from that edition. Hertz's introduction is interesting, as is all his work. (See his excellent book, The End of the Line.) I would have appreciated his annotations to the texts as well. i would assign to a number of different university courses I teach.

worth obtaining for the finely-wrought intro by Neil Hertz

fine copy

GREAT TO HAVE THIS COLLECTION ALTHOUGH ONE SHORT ESSAY I WANTED WAS MISSING. IT WAS ENTITLED "CREATIVE WRITERS AND DAY-DREAMING" WHICH I WAS ABLE TO RETRIEVE FROM ANOTHER COLLECTION I HAVE OF ESSAYS ON AESTHETICS. THESE ESSAYS ARE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AND WERE INCLUDED IN MY PH.D. COURSE AT UNIVERSITY, NOTABLY JENSEN'S "GRADIVA", MICHELANGELO'S "MOSES" , DOSTOEVSKIJ AND GOETHE'S WORK ...