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Imago (novel)
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Wikipedia article
'Imago' is a 1906 autobiographical novel by Carl Spitteler. Spitteler's only novel, it tells of how a young writer returns to a small town where, four years earlier, he had met a woman who became his muse... only to learn that, in his absence, she has married someone else.
Influence
The book was cited by Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Hanns Sachs as a contributory factor in the early development of psychoanalysis.[https://books.google.ca/books?id=DTMnqDhTzNgC&pg=PA125&lpg=PA125&dq=imago+spitteler&source=bl&ots=biYkQSSCHf&sig=ACfU3U2ArasYi9VUblKPx6c5DnQKroapig&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjEzrr2gMnkAhXPct8KHciIBxEQ6AEwJHoECGUQAQ#v=onepage&q=imago%20spitteler&f=false The Freudian Calling: Early Viennese Psychoanalysis and the Pursuit of Cultural Science], by Louise Rose; published 1998 by Wayne State University Press Charles Baudouin proposed that Spitteler's prose works are intended as "commentaries on his major poems", and observed that 'Imago' is "puzzling" unless read from this viewpoint.[https://books.google.ca/books?id=2HtKCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT40&lpg=PT40&dq=imago+spitteler&source=bl&ots=P3UkJN6-NA&sig=ACfU3U2q558KpxfBs85Z9SIQrcVXGcD3mg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjEzrr2gMnkAhXPct8KHciIBxEQ6AEwK3oECGoQAQ#v=onepage&q=imago%20spitteler&f=false 'Contemporary Studies'], by Charles Baudouin, originally published 1924; reprinted 2015 by Routledge
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