The Erotic Motive in Literature (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

This 1919 work was praised by Freud himself. Applying psychoanalytic theories to his literary studies, the author considers eroticism, the Oedipus complex, genius, projection, neuroses, villains, cynicism, sublimation, and more before moving on to discuss the lives and works of Homer, Keats, Shelley, Poe, and Nietzsche, among others.