ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author focuses on the part of a typical character in Borsszem Janko, that of the successful caricature, Professor Tomb, who instead of letting poetical works in their original form influence his students takes them to pieces and murders their beauties by his philological and æsthetic analysis. Freud’s work, on the contrary, embraces the whole complex and all the profundities of the questions involved, so that we can point to the great master of mental science and mental treatment as being also the pathfinder in the domain of aesthetics. When Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams and the method of free superficial association therein employed was published it was to the author’s no small astonishment received with merely a pitying smile by the whole corporate body of scientific men.
