Modernism and the European Unconscious - Peter Collier - Hardcover

Modernism in art and literature was characterized by a reaction against the rationalism and scientism of the late nineteenth century and by a desire to open up unexplored areas of the mind, including the unconscious realms that were being revealed by Nietzsche, Freud, and Jung, among others. Modernism and the European Unconscious is a wide-ranging study of this modernist 'flight from reason' and of the impact of this movement on European culture in the twentieth century.Collier, Peter is the author of 'Modernism and the European Unconscious - Peter Collier - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780312042233 and ISBN 031204223X.