Abstract

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.