Review

Author(s): Kathleen L. Komar

Review by: Kathleen L. Komar
Source: The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 94, No. 4 (Oct., 1995), pp. 611-612
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Maria

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University

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1993.

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chological
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to
him
him
father
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disappointed
deprived
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develop
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traces Rilke
to disentangle
's struggles
himself
from his
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identification
with his self-absorbed
mother
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approving
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introduction

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texts in which
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to come
to terms with
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between
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of Rilke
itself but also a strong
's early works
component
analysis
(particularly
Malte
Laurids
The
of childhood
memories
of Rilke
confluence
's analysis
Brigge).
a
and Kleinbard's
examination
's own life creates
and traumas
of Rilke
compelling
study.
Kleinbard's

women
in Rilke
He
's life is especially
study of the
convincing.
surro
to the maternal
the abandoning
and crushing
mother,
Phia,
to the more
in Lou Andreas-Salom?,
and mir
and finally
gate embodied
pliable
in particular
is a major
contribution
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of Clara
roring Clara Westhoff.
analysis

moves

from

to our

as to
of Rilke
's development.
Kleinbard's
understanding
why
suggestions
to the younger
would
after his rela
be attracted
and more
Clara
admiring
the dominant
We
with
Lou
is most
and mothering
tionship
enlightening.
begin

Rilke

to understand

the mutual

their many
despite
Another
notably
to his father.
ship

years

that held

needs

psychological

Rilke

and

Clara

together

apart.
section

illuminating

Erich

of

Rilke

discusses

the volume

's relation

Freudian

"orthodox"

Simenauer's

analysis
a much
Kleinbard
sketches
phase
antagonism,
more
trou
and
of resentment
but also
love, compassion
complex
relationship
and Rilke
bled
identification
between
Rilke
and his father.
's early
letters
Citing
hAuald Tragy, Kleinbard
for his father
novella
that Rilke
's positive
argues
feelings
of

the

Challenging
as
Oedipal

relationship

are
to the com
and that the simpler Oedipad
does not do justice
model
genuine
to easy Freudian
of the relationship.
This
kind of resistance
is
plexity
orthodoxy
a
of Kleinbard's
of Rilke
's psychological
aspect
particularly
analysis
appealing
out where
does not fit Freud's
Kleinbard
often
Rilke
condition;
predicted
points
models

rather

Rilke
forcing
simply
about Kleinbard's

than

My only complaint
are made
footnotes
them

according

the creative

works

and

Kleinbard
and

to creative

figures.

University

Brechts

1993- Pp- x+469.

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by

one?namely
the habit
of

to

materials
provide
volume
should
be of

This

engrossed

It provides

and

mold.
that

the

numbering
for
makes

This
chapters.
in view of the
problem
constant
movement
His

Kleinbard's
study.
him
the correspondence
permits
means
of his life. It is an effective

pursuing.

of California,

Lehrst?cke,
von Klaus

ben

is

to those

this

But

experience.
from
gains

of Rilke
for a period
picture
to elucidate
one another
and work
analysis
scholars

to the
psychological

is a small

to follow
difficult
unnecessarily
to
subsections
rather
than
chapter

very choppy
reading
one
siderable
profit
tween

to conform
volume

to capture
of allowing

con
be

a whole
the

life

for

the psychological
to Rilke
interest
both

to literature
in psychoanalytic
and
approaches
and
reading
rewarding
experience.
engaging
Kathleen
L. Komar

Los Angeles

und

Entstehung
Dieter
DM

Krabiel.

Entwicklung

Stuttgart

und

eines

Spieltyps.

Weimar:

Verlag

Herausgege
J. B. Metzler,

98.

as an editor
for his extensive
of
best known
work
Krabiel,
perhaps
von Hofmannsthal,
to stress how different
is at some pains
is from
his work
on Lehrst?cke.
done
before
Krabiel
claims
that earlier work was
everything

Klaus-Dieter
Hugo
almost

dominated
structs

the

by "speculative"
facts
surrounding

theory, whereas
the creation

of

so he claims,
recon
he,
carefully
the works
subsumed
under
this

are to be seen not

as a theatrical
For Krabiel
Lehrst?cke
genre.
solely
undertaking,
in terms of the history
of the development
but as something
best understood
a
kind of music.
"usable"
particular

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