Jensen's brilliant and unique story of Gradiva has not only literary merit of very high order, but may be said to open up a new field for romance. It is the story of a young archaeologist who suffered a very characteristic mental disturbance and was gradually but effectively cured by a kind of native psychotherapeutic instinct, which probably inheres in all of us, but which in this case was found in the girl he formerly loved but had forgotten, and who restored at the same time his health and his old affection for her. Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about the work is that the author...

Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva An Awesome Book On Eplaining The Psychoanalysis Of Dreams The basic tenets of psychoanalysis include: a person's development is determined by often forgotten events in early childhood rather than by inherited traits alone. human attitude, mannerism, experience, and thought is largely influenced by irrational drives that are rooted in the unconscious it is necessary to bypass psychological resistance in the form of defense mechanisms when bringing drives into awareness conflicts between the conscious and the unconscious, or with repressed material can...