A Gorgon's mask; the mother in Thomas Manns' fiction.9042017457 A Gorgon's mask; the mother in Thomas Manns' fiction. Lawson, Lewis A. Editions Rodopi 2005 435 pages $108.00 Paperback Psychoanalysis and culture; v.12 PT2625 Lawson (English, U. of Maryland, College Park) contends that, as an infant, Thomas Mann Noun 1. Thomas Mann - German writer concerned about the role of the artist in bourgeois society (1875-1955) Mann experienced such physiological and psychological frustration at his mother's breast that he became ridden with anxiety about his mother's love and consequently created a female Gorgon which he hid behind fictional characters This is a list of fictional characters. It has been expanded into the following lists:
sublimation (sŭblĭmā`shən), change of a solid substance directly to a vapor without first passing through the liquid state. , and Edmund Bergler's analysis of writer's block writer's block Psychiatry An occupational neurosis of authors, in whom creative juices are temporarily or permanently inspissated to advance his argument. He finds an increasing inability in Mann to defend against the Gorgon in his later work and asserts that Mann eventually became victim to the return of the repressed re·pressed adj. Being subjected to or characterized by repression. . ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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