Agnon's Story: A Psychoanalytic Biography of S. Y. Agnon

Avner Falk

Agnon's Story: A Psychoanalytic Biography of S. Y. Agnon
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
NL
Published
1 November 2018
Pages
766
ISBN
9789004367777

Agnon’s Story: A Psychoanalytic Biography of S. Y. Agnon

Avner Falk

Agnon’s Story is the first complete psychoanalytic biography of the Nobel-Prize-winning Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon. It investigates the hidden links between his stories and his biography. Agnon was deeply ambivalent about the most important emotional objects of his life, in particular his father-teacher, his ailing, depressive and symbiotic mother, whom he left when she was very ill, and about whose death he felt guilty all his life, his emotionally-fragile wife, whom he named after his mother, and his adopted motherland, the Land of Israel. Yet he maintained an incredible emotional resiliency and ability to sublimate his emotional pain into works of art. This biography seeks to investigate the unconscious emotional forces that drove his stories, his ambivalence about his family, and the underlying narcissistic grandiosity of his famous modesty.

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