UC Berkeley Perspectives in Medical Humanities Title What to Read on Love, not Sex: Freud, Fiction, and the Articulation of Truth in Modern Psychological Science Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/67c9k0q7 ISBN 9780983463962 Author Miyawaki, Edison, M.D. Publication Date 2012-07-12 eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Perspectives in Medical Humanities Freud, Fiction, and the Articulation of Truth Busenbark Photo: E. B. in Modern Psychological Science This extraordinary work traverses the boundaries of Freudian concepts, religious experience, art, and modern neuroscience to examine the ‘significance of love,’ Edison Miyawaki teaches perhaps the most abiding and important of all human emotions and reflections. neurology and psychiatry at the The book is a treasure with deep significance for everyone. – Joseph B. Martin, M.D., Ph.D. Brigham and Women’s Hospital Edward R. and Anne G. 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For SYM in memoriam and EHM Freud, Fiction, and the Articulation of Truth in Modern Psychological Science Edison Miyawaki, M.D. | Foreword by Harold Bloom University of California Medical Humanities Press 2012 First published in 2012 by University of California Medical Humanities Press in partnership with eScholarship | University of California San Francisco – berkeley – london © 2012 by Edison Miyawaki University of California Medical Humanities Consortium 3333 California Street, Suite 485 San Francisco, CA 94143-0850 Cover Art: Leonardo da Vinci, Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and a Lamb (unfinished), Louvre, © Getty Images, with permission Design by Margaret N. Miyuki and Agnes T. Miyuki Figures on page 171: Mona Lisa–Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo/Leonardo da Vinci/The Bridgeman Art Library/ © Getty Images Virgin and Child with St. Anne/Leonardo da Vinci/The Bridgeman Art Library/ © Getty Images St. John the Baptist/Leonardo da Vinci/The Bridgeman Art Library/ © Getty Images Library of Congress Control Number: 2012934221 isbn 978-0-9834639-5-5 (paperback) isbn 978-0-9834639-6-2 (hardback) Printed in usa Contents Foreword ix Introduction 1 1 Plato’s Memory 16 2 Oedipus 34 3 Narcissus 57 4 Cordelia 85 5 Hamlet 118 6 Leonardo 143 7 Moses 174 8 Postscript 203 Acknowledgments & Sources 214 Index of Authors or Works 241