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Specular Moment: Moment for Reflection

Freud continues to polarize sciences and humanities into two antagonistic cultures. Scientists critical of Freudian literary theorists accuse them of failing to apply truth-criteria; Freudian literary theorists find scientists' 'true or false' analysis simplistic. The scientists assert the arbitrariness of Freud's notions and the lack of hard evidence for them. The theorists argue that Freud investigates myth-making, not biology, and find his hermeneutic techniques highly relevant to the myth-making that is literature. Anyone unpersuaded by this defence risks rejecting a large body of interpretation, including a great deal of recent work on Goethe. A weighty example of recent Freudian criticism is David E. Wellbery's The Specular Moment. Goethe's Early Lyric and the Beginnings of Romanticism. Wellbery uses semiotics, structuralism and discourse analysis as well as psychoanalytic concepts to present Goethe as the initiator of a modem lyric which 'draws on the matrix of specularity' (181), that is, for Wellbery, the subject's relation to the mother. In fact, The Specular Moment