Gradiva (novel)

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Gradiva: A Pompeiian Fancy is a novella by Wilhelm Jensen, first published in instalments from June 1 to July 20, 1902, in the Viennese newspaper Neue Freie Presse, and as a book in 1903. 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, and translated into English in 1917 as an appendix to Freud’s study. The psychoanalytic study popularized the novella, and the fantasy-image described by Jensen, based on the Roman sculpture, then became a prominent subject in Surrealist art.

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