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546 pages, Paperback
First published August 31, 1994
„Viața abia ne mai ajunge pentru a citi doar o selecție a marilor autori... Cel care citește trebuie să aleagă, odată ce, literalmente, nu există timp suficient pentru a citi tot, chiar dacă el n-ar face altceva decît să citească”.
Tradition is not only a handing-down or process of benign transmission; it is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration, in which the prize is literary survival or canonical inclusion.
From Hamlet, Freud draws much of the material he need to formulate the Oedipus complex. He does so directly. But all through Freud there are instances of convergence with Shakespeare. What these instances indicate, at least to me, is that Freud effectively acts as literary critic of Shakespeare. He takes the work at hand and draws a theory of human nature and of human social life from it. Freud has seen that Shakespeare poses the question "What is life?" and he has done his best to construe his answer. And this, in fact, is what literary criticism ought to do.