Aiken, Conrad (Vol. 5) - Aiken, Conrad 1889–1973
Aiken, Conrad 1889–1973
Aiken was a distinguished American poet, short story writer, novelist, and critic. His involvement with fantasy and psychology and his concern with sex and morbidity reveal the persistent influence on his work of the theories of Freud and Havelock Ellis. Aiken won the Pulitzer Prize in 1930 for his Selected Poems. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.; obituary, Vols. 45-48.)
Aiken's lifelong interest in psychoanalytic theory, especially the work of Freud, is reflected not only in his desire to discover the unconscious elements that are the prelude to all conceptions of and attitudes toward the human role in the universe, but also in his use of myth to depict various levels of human perception and consciousness….
Recognizing that it is fundamentally man's "hunger" for security and grandeur that "shapes itself as gods and rainbows" (Time in the Rock, XXVIII), Aiken creates a new...
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