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'Die dunkle and wilde Seite der Seele': Hermann Hesse, Briefwechsel mit seinem Psychoanalytiker Josef Bernhard Lang 1916-1944.(Book review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20070701
Author:Durrani, Osman

'Die dunkle and wilde Seite der Seele': Hermann Hesse, Briefwechsel mit seinem Psychoanalytiker Yosef Bernhard Lang 1916-1944. Ed. by THOMAS FEITKNECHT. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp. 2006. 442 pp. 24.80 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-3-518-41757-7.

Hermann Hesse's exposure to psychoanalysis is regularly presented as a wholesome therapeutic process. Deeply traumatized by various factors-his wife's psychosis, an opium habit, and a literary impasse-the novelist turned to the medical profession for help in resuming his career. He was fortunate to find a sympathetic psychiatrist in the ...

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