Joseph Conrad —— A Psychoanalytic Biography

----- 约瑟夫·康拉德：精神分析传记

ISBN: 9780691621302 出版年：2015 页码：414 Meyer, Bernard Constant Princeton University Press

Joseph conrad once voiced the hope that from the reading of his pages might "emerge at last the vision of a personality: the man behind the books ...A coherent justifiable personality both in its origin and its actions." dr. Meyer arrives at a unified picture of conrad's personality by applying psychoanalytic principles and insights to two main sets of data on conrad: his unusual history and his creative work. Basic psychological and emotional patterns appear repetitively, and dr. Meyer concludes that conrad's art served an important psychological function in his life--the achievement through his creative fiction of a corrective revision of painful reality.