Freyd-Shnizler: Literary-Philosophical Discussion

Abstract

Schnitzler's approach that the driving force of human behavior lies in the unconscious, keep it with Freud. As before, today too, in the scientific literature of their relationship as controversial as the contradictory relationship of literature and psychoanalyse themselves. In his writings, Freud exalted role of literature and suggest to poetical product as an alternative consciousness. Probably that was the reason that the writers of Viennese Art Nouveau first to respond to the ideas of Freud. Writers and especially Viennese modernists Freud like-minded his teachings and ideas. On the other hand, Freud shows  that in comparison with science literature is in a lower position. Viennese moder­nists and Schnitzler including at first gave a positive response to his teaching believed that Freud wrote that, what has long been said in  the literature even earlier, before the advent of psychoanalysis as a science.