• DOI:10.1177/000306519204000305
Corpus ID: 46322856

G. C. Lichtenberg: Dreams, Jokes, and the Unconscious in Eighteenth-Century Germany

@article{Tomlinson1992GCL,
  title={G. C. Lichtenberg: Dreams, Jokes, and the Unconscious in Eighteenth-Century Germany},
  author={C. Tomlinson},
  journal={Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association},
  year={1992},
  volume={40},
  pages={761 - 799}
}

C. Tomlinson

Published 1992

Sociology, Medicine

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

The German physicist and writer Lichtenberg (1742–1799) was well known during the nineteenth century as a humorist, thinker, and psychologist. He was also a favorite author of Freud, who read him beginning in his teens, quoted him frequently, and called him a “remarkable psychologist.” Despite this, he has been ignored by psychoanalysts and historians of psychiatry alike, and most of his writing is still unavailable in English. An introduction to Lichtenberg as a psychologist is provided… CONTINUE READING

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