Gradiva (novel)
"Gradiva": Cast of a work in the Vatican museum, which inspired the fictional character. Freud Museum – London | |
| Author | Wilhelm Jensen |
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| Language | German |
| Genre | Romance novel |
| Publisher | Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag |
Publication date | 1903 |
| Publication place | Germany |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| OCLC | 7305023 |
Gradiva: a Pompeian fantasy is a novel by Wilhelm Jensen, first published in instalments from June 1 to July 20, 1902 in the Viennese newspaper "Neue Freie Presse". It was inspired by a Roman bas-relief and became the basis for Sigmund Freud's famous 1907 study Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva. The psychoanalytic study popularized the novel, and the fantasy-image described by Jensen, based on the Roman sculpture, then became a prominent subject in Surrealist art.