Here is a volume comprising the most celebrated essays on Sigmund Freud by renowned men of letters. This is the first time literature's classic assessments and analyses of Freud, from early modernism to contemporary linguistic criticism, have appeared together. In this book is eleven dramatic and decisive statements about the complex relationship between Freud and literature by some of the century's most distinguished poets, novelists, and critics. You will develop a clearer understanding of Freud's own power and richness as an imaginative writer in his own right. Through these essays you will also cultivate an awareness of the course literature has taken since its modernist movement early in the twentieth century.