Joseph Conrad: A Psychoanalytic Biography

by Bernard Constant Meyer

Overview

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.

Originally published in 1967.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691647968
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	04/19/2016
Series:	Princeton Legacy Library , #1365
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter, pg. i
• Acknowledgments, pg. vii
• Contents, pg. ix
• Drawings by Joseph Conrad, pg. x
• Introduction, pg. 1
• I. Youth, pg. 21
• II. The Duel, pg. 35
• III. The Shadow-Line, pg. 54
• IV. A Smile of Fortune, pg. 71
• V. 'Twixt Land and Sea, pg. 91
• VI. An Outcast of the Islands, pg. 112
• VII. The Rescue, pg. 133
• VIII. The Secret Sharers, pg. 154
• IX. Heart of Darkness, pg. 168
• X. The Character of the Foe, pg. 185
• XI. Under Polish Eyes, pg. 202
• XII. The End of the Tether, pg. 221
• XIII. The Rover, pg. 244
• XIV. A Personal Record, pg. 267
• XV. The Arrow of Gold, pg. 291
• XVI. The Black Mate, pg. 317
• XVII. Poland Revisited, pg. 339
• Bibliographical Notes, pg. 363
• Index, pg. 385