The Death of Narcissus by Morris Fraser (1976)
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Overview: Irish Psychiatrist Morris Fraser makes a Freudian analysis of the Narcissistic orientation, using repeated symbolisms and imagery in the literature of topical writers such as Lewis Carol (Alice books), J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan), Henry James (The Turn of the Screw), Michel Tournier (The Erl-King), Forrest Reid (The Garden God), George McDonald (The Water-Babies), F. M. Farrar (Eric), Hugh Walpole (Jeremy), and others.
Fraser writes:
A creative artist is generally understood to be a man with an outstanding ability to perceive and to communicate. For this reason, if he happens to be a victim of any psychiatric illness or abnormality, he is uniquely qualified to act as spokesman — both for himself and also for the vast army of people who may share his problems but who lack a matching gift of self-analysis. So perhaps, by giving close attention to what he has to say, one can arrive at new and valuable insights into a number of psychiatric disorders and, by extension, find effective therapies which can be made available to the many people for whom he speaks.
This book was written to bring these possibilities to bear on a relatively small area of psychopathology — the sexual disorder known as paedophilia.
Genre: General, Literary analysis
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