Nostalgia, a Psychoanalytic Study of Marcel Proust

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1956. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo with sea green cloth boards and dark blue spine title; in blue and black pictorial jacket; 306 pages; index; bibliography; 21cm Near fine in very good (+) jacket with light edgewear; now in archival mylar. Hardcover.

"In this book the distinguished psychoanalyst, Milton L. Miller, brings Freudian theory to bear on Proustian art, with the most interesting and unexpected results. By means of a perceptive, sensitive, and always sympathetic analysis of Proust's life and work, he traces evidence of the writer's repressed drives, showing how they were transmuted passively through the unconscious symbolism in his novels, and appeared actively in his abnormal way of life and his physical ailments. This is a pioneering study of the integrative process in aesthetic creation." --Jacket copy.