Volume 21, Number 14 · September 19, 1974
Proust and the Will
By Roger Shattuck
Because of its constant preoccupation with states of mind and hidden motivation, In Search of Lost Time seems to qualify as an exhaustivé psychoanalytic case history. Of course, Proust did not discover the unconscious and the influence of long forgotten or suppressed events by reading Freud. Furthermore the novel does not simply record Proust's own case.[1]
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