# Delusion and Dream : an Interpretation in the Light of Psychoanalysis of Gradiva

By Sigmund Freud and Wilhelm Jensen.

"Delusion and Dream: an Interpretation in the Light of Psychoanalysis of…" by Sigmund Freud is an essay written in 1907 that applies psychoanalysis to Wilhelm Jensen's novel Gradiva. Freud examines how a young archaeologist, Norbert Hanold, unconsciously transforms his repressed childhood love into an obsession with a woman depicted in an ancient Roman bas-relief. Through delusion and dreams set in Pompeii, Hanold eventually confronts reality when his forgotten sweetheart cleverly guides him back to sanity, demonstrating what Freud called "cure by love." (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Author of introduction, etc.: G. Stanley Hall
- Translator: Helen M. Downey
- Subjects: Psychoanalysis; Dreams -- Fiction; Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Fiction; Jensen, Wilhelm, 1837-1911. Gradiva

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