Project Gutenberg 2018-03-18 Public domain in the USA. 11021 Mordell, Albert 1885 1965 19007480 The Erotic Motive in Literature Produced by Chris Curnow, Christopher Wright and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Erotic Motive in Literature" by Albert Mordell is a psychoanalytic literary criticism written in the early 20th century. The work seeks to explore the underlying erotic motives present in literature, positing that these motives arise from the author's unconscious. The analysis focuses on how personal experiences, emotions, and memories influence literary expression across various genres. The opening of the volume presents the author's ambition to apply psychoanalytic methods to literary analysis, advocating for a deeper examination of texts to uncover aspects of the author's psyche. Mordell introduces the idea that literature serves as a personal reflection of the author, revealing hidden emotions and traumas that shape their narratives. He draws parallels between dreams and literary works, suggesting that both can illuminate unconscious desires and conflicts that drive human behavior and creativity, laying the foundation for further explorations into the erotic undercurrents that permeate literary masterpieces. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 66.7 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Erotic literature -- History and criticism Psychoanalysis and literature Sex in literature PN Text Category: Literature - Other Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: Psychiatry/Psychology Category: Sexuality & Erotica 491270 2025-06-22T14:42:40.571025 text/html 494665 2018-03-18T13:55:22 text/html 362522 2025-06-22T14:42:48.636970 application/epub+zip 359718 2025-06-22T14:42:41.943000 application/epub+zip 281832 2025-06-22T14:42:41.266002 application/epub+zip 485153 2025-06-22T14:42:53.460929 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 435420 2025-06-22T14:42:47.645002 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 361730 2022-08-25T14:31:27.586138 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 442829 2025-06-22T14:42:39.839022 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 442992 2018-03-18T13:55:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18557 2025-06-22T14:42:53.610000 application/rdf+xml 17372 2025-06-22T14:42:41.387005 image/jpeg 2288 2025-06-22T14:42:41.326978 image/jpeg 167673 2018-03-18T13:55:24 application/octet-stream application/zip 310031 2018-03-18T13:55:24 application/octet-stream application/zip 309900 2025-06-22T14:42:40.620097 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog