The goal of this thesis is to offer a psychoanalytical understanding of Thomas Mann's short story Death in Venice. This understanding is achieved through analysis of motive of godhood and the explanation of two dominant themes of the story, love and death. This thesis also compares the story of novella with Plato's dialogue Phaedrus and draws paralels between message of the novela and Sigmund Freud's work Beyond the pleasure principle and two of the fragments from Heraclitus of Ephesus. Thesis also offers brief research of what was already written about Death in Venice. The findings of my interpretation are compared to Heinz Kohut's interpretation of Death in Venice from 1957. KEY WORDS god, godhood, antiquity, eros, love, death
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:451279 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Sácký, Jan |
| Contributors | Kučera, Miloš, Klusák, Miroslav |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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