Books
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society
– New York: Viking Press, 1950.Summary: “The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but… More
Freud and Literature
– "Freud and Literature." Originally published as "The Legacy of Sigmund Freud, Part 2: Literary and Aesthetic." Kenyon Review 2, No. 2 (Spring 1940): 152-73. A revised version appeared in Horizon, September 1947.Excerpt, from Horizon: The Freudian psychology is the only systematic account of the human mind whch, in point of subtlety and complexity, of interest and tragic power, deserves to stand… More
A Note on Art and Neurosis
– "A Note on Art and Neurosis." The Partisan Review, Winter 1945. Some new material appeared in The New Leader, December 13, 1947.Excerpt: The question of the mental health of the artist has engaged the attention of our culture since the beginning of the Romantic Movement. Before that time it was commonly said that… More
Freud and the Crisis of our Culture
– Boston: Beacon Press, 1955.Summary: “Brief study of the impact of Freudian thought on our way of looking at the world”
A Gathering of Fugitives
– Boston: Beacon Press, 1956.Summary: “Writings on general cultural issues accompany discussions of such authors as Edith Wharton, Robert Graves, C. P. Snow, and Charles Dickens.” Contents: The Great Aunt… More
Freud’s Last Book
– “Freud’s Last Book.” New York Times Book Review, 1949.The Situation of the American Intellectual at the Present Time
– Originally published as Trilling's contribution to "Our Country and Our Culture: A Symposium." Partisan Review 19, no. 3 (May 1952): 318-26.Excerpt (from the essay as published in The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent): The editors of Partisan Review have long been thought to give a rather special credence and sympathy to the… More
The Fate of Pleasure
– “The Fate of Pleasure.” Partisan Review, Summer 1963.Excerpt: Of all critical essays in the English language, there is none that has established itself so firmly in our minds as Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads. Indeed, certain of… More
Freud: Within and Beyond Culture
– “Freud: Within and Beyond Culture.” First delivered as “Freud and the Crisis of our Culture” for the Freud Anniversary Lecture in the New York Psychoanalytical Society and the New York Psychoanalytical Institute, May 1955. Subsequently published as Freud and the Crisis of our Culture (Boston: Beacon Press, 1955).Excerpt: And in the degree that society was personalized by the concept of culture, the individual was seen to be far more deeply implicated in society than ever before. This is not an idea… More
Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning
– New York: Viking, 1965.Summary: “In essays on education, literature, and psychoanalysis, Trilling addresses himself to the assumptions made by those who define themselves in terms of their relation to the… More
What is Criticism?
– "What is Criticism?" Introduction to Literary Criticism: An Introductory Reader, edited and with prefaces by Lionel Trilling. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.Aggression and Utopia
– "Aggression and Utopia." Originally published as "Aggression and Utopia: A Note on William Morris's 'News from Nowhere.'" Psychoanalytic Quarterly 42 (April 1973): 214-25.The Freud/Jung Letters
– "The Freud/Jung Letters." Review of The Freud-Jung Letters: The Correspondence Between Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung, edited by William McGuire, translated by Ralph Manheim and R.F.C. Hull (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974). New York Times Book Review, April 21, 1974, 1, 32-35.Excerpt: The relationship between Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung had its bright beginning in 1906 and came to its embittered end in 1913. Its disastrous course was charted by the many letters… More
Some Notes for an Autobiographical Lecture
– "Some Notes for an Autobiographical Lecture." An unfinished memoir, intended to be given as a lecture at Purdue University.The Last Decade: Essays and Reviews, 1965-1975
– Ed. Diana Trilling. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979.Summary: “Pieces written during the last ten years of Trilling’s life include important statements on Joyce, Austen, and Freud, a probing investigation of modern art, a memoir… More
Speaking of Literature and Society
– Trilling, Diana, ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.Summary: “Diana Trilling selected pieces from her husband’s previously uncollected writings covering the wide range of Trilling’s concerns from his undergraduate days… More
The Problem of Influence
– "The Problem of Influence." Review of Freudianism and the Literary Mind, Frederick J. Hoffman (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1945). Nation 161 (September 8, 1945): 234.Neurosis and the Health of the Artist
– "Neurosis and the Health of the Artist." Review of Leonardo da Vinci: A Study in Psychosexuality, by Sigmund Freud, translated by A. A. Brill (New York: Random House, 1947); and Stavrogin's Confession, by F. M. Dostoevsky, translated by Virginia Woolf and S. S. Koteliansky, with a psychoanalytical study of the author by Sigmund Freud (New York: Lear, 1947). New Leader 30 (December 13, 1947): 12.The Formative Years
– "The Formative Years." Originally published as "The Adventurous Mind of Dr. Freud." Review of The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Volume 1: The Formative Years, 1856-1901, by Ernest Jones (New York: Basic Books, 1953). New York Times Book Review, October 11, 1953, 1, 27.The Years of Maturity
– "The Years of Maturity." Originally published as "A Victory Built of Faith, Pertinacity, and Judgment." Review of The Life and Workd of Sigmund Freud, Vol. 11: Years of Maturity, 1901-1919, by Ernest Jones (New York: Basic Books, 1953). New York Times Book Review, September 18, 1955, 5.Last Years of a Titan
– "Last Years of a Titan." Originally published as "Suffering and Darkness Marked the Years of Triumph." Review of The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Vol. III: The Last Phase, 1919-1939, by Ernest Jones (New York: Basic Books, 1957). New York Times Book Review, October 18, 1957, 7, 36.Literary Pathology
– "Literary Pathology." Lecture given at the American Psychoanalytic Association, December 7, 1962.Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism
– Krupnick, Mark. Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1986.Lionel Trilling: An Annotated Bibliography
– Leitch, Thomas M. Lionel Trilling: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1993.Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves
– Rodden, John, ed. Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.Collection of essays by prominent critics on Trilling’s career; includes many of the most important essays on Trilling’s work published during his lifetime.
The Last Great Critic
– Glick, Nathan. “The Last Great Critic.” The Atlantic, July 2000.Excerpt: I CANNOT close this review without noting two contributions by the editor. John Rodden’s introductory survey of the contents of this collection is richly but casually… More
Regrets Only: Lionel Trilling and His Discontents
– Menand, Louis. "Regrets Only: Lionel Trilling and his discontents." New Yorker, September 29, 2008.Excerpt: Most people who picked up the book in 1950 would have understood it as an attack on the dogmatism and philistinism of the fellow-travelling left, but the term “liberal” is… More
Introduction to The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud
– Introduction to The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones, vii-xviii. Edited and abridged by Lionel Trilling and Steven Marcus. New York: Basic, 1961.Authenticity and the Modern Unconscious
– “Authenticity and the Modern Unconscious.” Commentary 52 (September 1971): 39-50.Essays
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society
– New York: Viking Press, 1950.Summary: “The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but… More
Freud and Literature
– "Freud and Literature." Originally published as "The Legacy of Sigmund Freud, Part 2: Literary and Aesthetic." Kenyon Review 2, No. 2 (Spring 1940): 152-73. A revised version appeared in Horizon, September 1947.Excerpt, from Horizon: The Freudian psychology is the only systematic account of the human mind whch, in point of subtlety and complexity, of interest and tragic power, deserves to stand… More
A Note on Art and Neurosis
– "A Note on Art and Neurosis." The Partisan Review, Winter 1945. Some new material appeared in The New Leader, December 13, 1947.Excerpt: The question of the mental health of the artist has engaged the attention of our culture since the beginning of the Romantic Movement. Before that time it was commonly said that… More
Freud and the Crisis of our Culture
– Boston: Beacon Press, 1955.Summary: “Brief study of the impact of Freudian thought on our way of looking at the world”
A Gathering of Fugitives
– Boston: Beacon Press, 1956.Summary: “Writings on general cultural issues accompany discussions of such authors as Edith Wharton, Robert Graves, C. P. Snow, and Charles Dickens.” Contents: The Great Aunt… More
Freud’s Last Book
– “Freud’s Last Book.” New York Times Book Review, 1949.The Situation of the American Intellectual at the Present Time
– Originally published as Trilling's contribution to "Our Country and Our Culture: A Symposium." Partisan Review 19, no. 3 (May 1952): 318-26.Excerpt (from the essay as published in The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent): The editors of Partisan Review have long been thought to give a rather special credence and sympathy to the… More
The Fate of Pleasure
– “The Fate of Pleasure.” Partisan Review, Summer 1963.Excerpt: Of all critical essays in the English language, there is none that has established itself so firmly in our minds as Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads. Indeed, certain of… More
Freud: Within and Beyond Culture
– “Freud: Within and Beyond Culture.” First delivered as “Freud and the Crisis of our Culture” for the Freud Anniversary Lecture in the New York Psychoanalytical Society and the New York Psychoanalytical Institute, May 1955. Subsequently published as Freud and the Crisis of our Culture (Boston: Beacon Press, 1955).Excerpt: And in the degree that society was personalized by the concept of culture, the individual was seen to be far more deeply implicated in society than ever before. This is not an idea… More
Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning
– New York: Viking, 1965.Summary: “In essays on education, literature, and psychoanalysis, Trilling addresses himself to the assumptions made by those who define themselves in terms of their relation to the… More
What is Criticism?
– "What is Criticism?" Introduction to Literary Criticism: An Introductory Reader, edited and with prefaces by Lionel Trilling. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.Aggression and Utopia
– "Aggression and Utopia." Originally published as "Aggression and Utopia: A Note on William Morris's 'News from Nowhere.'" Psychoanalytic Quarterly 42 (April 1973): 214-25.The Freud/Jung Letters
– "The Freud/Jung Letters." Review of The Freud-Jung Letters: The Correspondence Between Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung, edited by William McGuire, translated by Ralph Manheim and R.F.C. Hull (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974). New York Times Book Review, April 21, 1974, 1, 32-35.Excerpt: The relationship between Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung had its bright beginning in 1906 and came to its embittered end in 1913. Its disastrous course was charted by the many letters… More
Some Notes for an Autobiographical Lecture
– "Some Notes for an Autobiographical Lecture." An unfinished memoir, intended to be given as a lecture at Purdue University.The Last Decade: Essays and Reviews, 1965-1975
– Ed. Diana Trilling. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979.Summary: “Pieces written during the last ten years of Trilling’s life include important statements on Joyce, Austen, and Freud, a probing investigation of modern art, a memoir… More
Speaking of Literature and Society
– Trilling, Diana, ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.Summary: “Diana Trilling selected pieces from her husband’s previously uncollected writings covering the wide range of Trilling’s concerns from his undergraduate days… More
The Problem of Influence
– "The Problem of Influence." Review of Freudianism and the Literary Mind, Frederick J. Hoffman (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1945). Nation 161 (September 8, 1945): 234.Neurosis and the Health of the Artist
– "Neurosis and the Health of the Artist." Review of Leonardo da Vinci: A Study in Psychosexuality, by Sigmund Freud, translated by A. A. Brill (New York: Random House, 1947); and Stavrogin's Confession, by F. M. Dostoevsky, translated by Virginia Woolf and S. S. Koteliansky, with a psychoanalytical study of the author by Sigmund Freud (New York: Lear, 1947). New Leader 30 (December 13, 1947): 12.The Formative Years
– "The Formative Years." Originally published as "The Adventurous Mind of Dr. Freud." Review of The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Volume 1: The Formative Years, 1856-1901, by Ernest Jones (New York: Basic Books, 1953). New York Times Book Review, October 11, 1953, 1, 27.The Years of Maturity
– "The Years of Maturity." Originally published as "A Victory Built of Faith, Pertinacity, and Judgment." Review of The Life and Workd of Sigmund Freud, Vol. 11: Years of Maturity, 1901-1919, by Ernest Jones (New York: Basic Books, 1953). New York Times Book Review, September 18, 1955, 5.Last Years of a Titan
– "Last Years of a Titan." Originally published as "Suffering and Darkness Marked the Years of Triumph." Review of The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Vol. III: The Last Phase, 1919-1939, by Ernest Jones (New York: Basic Books, 1957). New York Times Book Review, October 18, 1957, 7, 36.Literary Pathology
– "Literary Pathology." Lecture given at the American Psychoanalytic Association, December 7, 1962.Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism
– Krupnick, Mark. Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1986.Lionel Trilling: An Annotated Bibliography
– Leitch, Thomas M. Lionel Trilling: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1993.Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves
– Rodden, John, ed. Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.Collection of essays by prominent critics on Trilling’s career; includes many of the most important essays on Trilling’s work published during his lifetime.
The Last Great Critic
– Glick, Nathan. “The Last Great Critic.” The Atlantic, July 2000.Excerpt: I CANNOT close this review without noting two contributions by the editor. John Rodden’s introductory survey of the contents of this collection is richly but casually… More
Regrets Only: Lionel Trilling and His Discontents
– Menand, Louis. "Regrets Only: Lionel Trilling and his discontents." New Yorker, September 29, 2008.Excerpt: Most people who picked up the book in 1950 would have understood it as an attack on the dogmatism and philistinism of the fellow-travelling left, but the term “liberal” is… More
Introduction to The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud
– Introduction to The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones, vii-xviii. Edited and abridged by Lionel Trilling and Steven Marcus. New York: Basic, 1961.Authenticity and the Modern Unconscious
– “Authenticity and the Modern Unconscious.” Commentary 52 (September 1971): 39-50.Commentary
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society
– New York: Viking Press, 1950.Summary: “The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but… More
Freud and Literature
– "Freud and Literature." Originally published as "The Legacy of Sigmund Freud, Part 2: Literary and Aesthetic." Kenyon Review 2, No. 2 (Spring 1940): 152-73. A revised version appeared in Horizon, September 1947.Excerpt, from Horizon: The Freudian psychology is the only systematic account of the human mind whch, in point of subtlety and complexity, of interest and tragic power, deserves to stand… More
A Note on Art and Neurosis
– "A Note on Art and Neurosis." The Partisan Review, Winter 1945. Some new material appeared in The New Leader, December 13, 1947.Excerpt: The question of the mental health of the artist has engaged the attention of our culture since the beginning of the Romantic Movement. Before that time it was commonly said that… More
Freud and the Crisis of our Culture
– Boston: Beacon Press, 1955.Summary: “Brief study of the impact of Freudian thought on our way of looking at the world”
A Gathering of Fugitives
– Boston: Beacon Press, 1956.Summary: “Writings on general cultural issues accompany discussions of such authors as Edith Wharton, Robert Graves, C. P. Snow, and Charles Dickens.” Contents: The Great Aunt… More
Freud’s Last Book
– “Freud’s Last Book.” New York Times Book Review, 1949.The Situation of the American Intellectual at the Present Time
– Originally published as Trilling's contribution to "Our Country and Our Culture: A Symposium." Partisan Review 19, no. 3 (May 1952): 318-26.Excerpt (from the essay as published in The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent): The editors of Partisan Review have long been thought to give a rather special credence and sympathy to the… More
The Fate of Pleasure
– “The Fate of Pleasure.” Partisan Review, Summer 1963.Excerpt: Of all critical essays in the English language, there is none that has established itself so firmly in our minds as Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads. Indeed, certain of… More
Freud: Within and Beyond Culture
– “Freud: Within and Beyond Culture.” First delivered as “Freud and the Crisis of our Culture” for the Freud Anniversary Lecture in the New York Psychoanalytical Society and the New York Psychoanalytical Institute, May 1955. Subsequently published as Freud and the Crisis of our Culture (Boston: Beacon Press, 1955).Excerpt: And in the degree that society was personalized by the concept of culture, the individual was seen to be far more deeply implicated in society than ever before. This is not an idea… More
Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning
– New York: Viking, 1965.Summary: “In essays on education, literature, and psychoanalysis, Trilling addresses himself to the assumptions made by those who define themselves in terms of their relation to the… More
What is Criticism?
– "What is Criticism?" Introduction to Literary Criticism: An Introductory Reader, edited and with prefaces by Lionel Trilling. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.Aggression and Utopia
– "Aggression and Utopia." Originally published as "Aggression and Utopia: A Note on William Morris's 'News from Nowhere.'" Psychoanalytic Quarterly 42 (April 1973): 214-25.The Freud/Jung Letters
– "The Freud/Jung Letters." Review of The Freud-Jung Letters: The Correspondence Between Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung, edited by William McGuire, translated by Ralph Manheim and R.F.C. Hull (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974). New York Times Book Review, April 21, 1974, 1, 32-35.Excerpt: The relationship between Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung had its bright beginning in 1906 and came to its embittered end in 1913. Its disastrous course was charted by the many letters… More
Some Notes for an Autobiographical Lecture
– "Some Notes for an Autobiographical Lecture." An unfinished memoir, intended to be given as a lecture at Purdue University.The Last Decade: Essays and Reviews, 1965-1975
– Ed. Diana Trilling. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979.Summary: “Pieces written during the last ten years of Trilling’s life include important statements on Joyce, Austen, and Freud, a probing investigation of modern art, a memoir… More
Speaking of Literature and Society
– Trilling, Diana, ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.Summary: “Diana Trilling selected pieces from her husband’s previously uncollected writings covering the wide range of Trilling’s concerns from his undergraduate days… More
The Problem of Influence
– "The Problem of Influence." Review of Freudianism and the Literary Mind, Frederick J. Hoffman (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1945). Nation 161 (September 8, 1945): 234.Neurosis and the Health of the Artist
– "Neurosis and the Health of the Artist." Review of Leonardo da Vinci: A Study in Psychosexuality, by Sigmund Freud, translated by A. A. Brill (New York: Random House, 1947); and Stavrogin's Confession, by F. M. Dostoevsky, translated by Virginia Woolf and S. S. Koteliansky, with a psychoanalytical study of the author by Sigmund Freud (New York: Lear, 1947). New Leader 30 (December 13, 1947): 12.The Formative Years
– "The Formative Years." Originally published as "The Adventurous Mind of Dr. Freud." Review of The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Volume 1: The Formative Years, 1856-1901, by Ernest Jones (New York: Basic Books, 1953). New York Times Book Review, October 11, 1953, 1, 27.The Years of Maturity
– "The Years of Maturity." Originally published as "A Victory Built of Faith, Pertinacity, and Judgment." Review of The Life and Workd of Sigmund Freud, Vol. 11: Years of Maturity, 1901-1919, by Ernest Jones (New York: Basic Books, 1953). New York Times Book Review, September 18, 1955, 5.Last Years of a Titan
– "Last Years of a Titan." Originally published as "Suffering and Darkness Marked the Years of Triumph." Review of The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Vol. III: The Last Phase, 1919-1939, by Ernest Jones (New York: Basic Books, 1957). New York Times Book Review, October 18, 1957, 7, 36.Literary Pathology
– "Literary Pathology." Lecture given at the American Psychoanalytic Association, December 7, 1962.Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism
– Krupnick, Mark. Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1986.Lionel Trilling: An Annotated Bibliography
– Leitch, Thomas M. Lionel Trilling: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1993.Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves
– Rodden, John, ed. Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.Collection of essays by prominent critics on Trilling’s career; includes many of the most important essays on Trilling’s work published during his lifetime.
The Last Great Critic
– Glick, Nathan. “The Last Great Critic.” The Atlantic, July 2000.Excerpt: I CANNOT close this review without noting two contributions by the editor. John Rodden’s introductory survey of the contents of this collection is richly but casually… More
Regrets Only: Lionel Trilling and His Discontents
– Menand, Louis. "Regrets Only: Lionel Trilling and his discontents." New Yorker, September 29, 2008.Excerpt: Most people who picked up the book in 1950 would have understood it as an attack on the dogmatism and philistinism of the fellow-travelling left, but the term “liberal” is… More
Introduction to The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud
– Introduction to The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones, vii-xviii. Edited and abridged by Lionel Trilling and Steven Marcus. New York: Basic, 1961.Authenticity and the Modern Unconscious
– “Authenticity and the Modern Unconscious.” Commentary 52 (September 1971): 39-50.Multimedia
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society
– New York: Viking Press, 1950.Summary: “The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but… More
Freud and Literature
– "Freud and Literature." Originally published as "The Legacy of Sigmund Freud, Part 2: Literary and Aesthetic." Kenyon Review 2, No. 2 (Spring 1940): 152-73. A revised version appeared in Horizon, September 1947.Excerpt, from Horizon: The Freudian psychology is the only systematic account of the human mind whch, in point of subtlety and complexity, of interest and tragic power, deserves to stand… More
A Note on Art and Neurosis
– "A Note on Art and Neurosis." The Partisan Review, Winter 1945. Some new material appeared in The New Leader, December 13, 1947.Excerpt: The question of the mental health of the artist has engaged the attention of our culture since the beginning of the Romantic Movement. Before that time it was commonly said that… More
Freud and the Crisis of our Culture
– Boston: Beacon Press, 1955.Summary: “Brief study of the impact of Freudian thought on our way of looking at the world”
A Gathering of Fugitives
– Boston: Beacon Press, 1956.Summary: “Writings on general cultural issues accompany discussions of such authors as Edith Wharton, Robert Graves, C. P. Snow, and Charles Dickens.” Contents: The Great Aunt… More
Freud’s Last Book
– “Freud’s Last Book.” New York Times Book Review, 1949.The Situation of the American Intellectual at the Present Time
– Originally published as Trilling's contribution to "Our Country and Our Culture: A Symposium." Partisan Review 19, no. 3 (May 1952): 318-26.Excerpt (from the essay as published in The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent): The editors of Partisan Review have long been thought to give a rather special credence and sympathy to the… More
The Fate of Pleasure
– “The Fate of Pleasure.” Partisan Review, Summer 1963.Excerpt: Of all critical essays in the English language, there is none that has established itself so firmly in our minds as Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads. Indeed, certain of… More
Freud: Within and Beyond Culture
– “Freud: Within and Beyond Culture.” First delivered as “Freud and the Crisis of our Culture” for the Freud Anniversary Lecture in the New York Psychoanalytical Society and the New York Psychoanalytical Institute, May 1955. Subsequently published as Freud and the Crisis of our Culture (Boston: Beacon Press, 1955).Excerpt: And in the degree that society was personalized by the concept of culture, the individual was seen to be far more deeply implicated in society than ever before. This is not an idea… More
Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning
– New York: Viking, 1965.Summary: “In essays on education, literature, and psychoanalysis, Trilling addresses himself to the assumptions made by those who define themselves in terms of their relation to the… More
What is Criticism?
– "What is Criticism?" Introduction to Literary Criticism: An Introductory Reader, edited and with prefaces by Lionel Trilling. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.Aggression and Utopia
– "Aggression and Utopia." Originally published as "Aggression and Utopia: A Note on William Morris's 'News from Nowhere.'" Psychoanalytic Quarterly 42 (April 1973): 214-25.The Freud/Jung Letters
– "The Freud/Jung Letters." Review of The Freud-Jung Letters: The Correspondence Between Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung, edited by William McGuire, translated by Ralph Manheim and R.F.C. Hull (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974). New York Times Book Review, April 21, 1974, 1, 32-35.Excerpt: The relationship between Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung had its bright beginning in 1906 and came to its embittered end in 1913. Its disastrous course was charted by the many letters… More
Some Notes for an Autobiographical Lecture
– "Some Notes for an Autobiographical Lecture." An unfinished memoir, intended to be given as a lecture at Purdue University.The Last Decade: Essays and Reviews, 1965-1975
– Ed. Diana Trilling. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979.Summary: “Pieces written during the last ten years of Trilling’s life include important statements on Joyce, Austen, and Freud, a probing investigation of modern art, a memoir… More
Speaking of Literature and Society
– Trilling, Diana, ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.Summary: “Diana Trilling selected pieces from her husband’s previously uncollected writings covering the wide range of Trilling’s concerns from his undergraduate days… More
The Problem of Influence
– "The Problem of Influence." Review of Freudianism and the Literary Mind, Frederick J. Hoffman (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1945). Nation 161 (September 8, 1945): 234.Neurosis and the Health of the Artist
– "Neurosis and the Health of the Artist." Review of Leonardo da Vinci: A Study in Psychosexuality, by Sigmund Freud, translated by A. A. Brill (New York: Random House, 1947); and Stavrogin's Confession, by F. M. Dostoevsky, translated by Virginia Woolf and S. S. Koteliansky, with a psychoanalytical study of the author by Sigmund Freud (New York: Lear, 1947). New Leader 30 (December 13, 1947): 12.The Formative Years
– "The Formative Years." Originally published as "The Adventurous Mind of Dr. Freud." Review of The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Volume 1: The Formative Years, 1856-1901, by Ernest Jones (New York: Basic Books, 1953). New York Times Book Review, October 11, 1953, 1, 27.The Years of Maturity
– "The Years of Maturity." Originally published as "A Victory Built of Faith, Pertinacity, and Judgment." Review of The Life and Workd of Sigmund Freud, Vol. 11: Years of Maturity, 1901-1919, by Ernest Jones (New York: Basic Books, 1953). New York Times Book Review, September 18, 1955, 5.Last Years of a Titan
– "Last Years of a Titan." Originally published as "Suffering and Darkness Marked the Years of Triumph." Review of The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Vol. III: The Last Phase, 1919-1939, by Ernest Jones (New York: Basic Books, 1957). New York Times Book Review, October 18, 1957, 7, 36.Literary Pathology
– "Literary Pathology." Lecture given at the American Psychoanalytic Association, December 7, 1962.Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism
– Krupnick, Mark. Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1986.Lionel Trilling: An Annotated Bibliography
– Leitch, Thomas M. Lionel Trilling: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1993.Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves
– Rodden, John, ed. Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.Collection of essays by prominent critics on Trilling’s career; includes many of the most important essays on Trilling’s work published during his lifetime.
The Last Great Critic
– Glick, Nathan. “The Last Great Critic.” The Atlantic, July 2000.Excerpt: I CANNOT close this review without noting two contributions by the editor. John Rodden’s introductory survey of the contents of this collection is richly but casually… More
Regrets Only: Lionel Trilling and His Discontents
– Menand, Louis. "Regrets Only: Lionel Trilling and his discontents." New Yorker, September 29, 2008.Excerpt: Most people who picked up the book in 1950 would have understood it as an attack on the dogmatism and philistinism of the fellow-travelling left, but the term “liberal” is… More
Introduction to The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud
– Introduction to The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones, vii-xviii. Edited and abridged by Lionel Trilling and Steven Marcus. New York: Basic, 1961.Authenticity and the Modern Unconscious
– “Authenticity and the Modern Unconscious.” Commentary 52 (September 1971): 39-50.Teaching
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society
– New York: Viking Press, 1950.Summary: “The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but… More
Freud and Literature
– "Freud and Literature." Originally published as "The Legacy of Sigmund Freud, Part 2: Literary and Aesthetic." Kenyon Review 2, No. 2 (Spring 1940): 152-73. A revised version appeared in Horizon, September 1947.Excerpt, from Horizon: The Freudian psychology is the only systematic account of the human mind whch, in point of subtlety and complexity, of interest and tragic power, deserves to stand… More
A Note on Art and Neurosis
– "A Note on Art and Neurosis." The Partisan Review, Winter 1945. Some new material appeared in The New Leader, December 13, 1947.Excerpt: The question of the mental health of the artist has engaged the attention of our culture since the beginning of the Romantic Movement. Before that time it was commonly said that… More
Freud and the Crisis of our Culture
– Boston: Beacon Press, 1955.Summary: “Brief study of the impact of Freudian thought on our way of looking at the world”
A Gathering of Fugitives
– Boston: Beacon Press, 1956.Summary: “Writings on general cultural issues accompany discussions of such authors as Edith Wharton, Robert Graves, C. P. Snow, and Charles Dickens.” Contents: The Great Aunt… More
Freud’s Last Book
– “Freud’s Last Book.” New York Times Book Review, 1949.The Situation of the American Intellectual at the Present Time
– Originally published as Trilling's contribution to "Our Country and Our Culture: A Symposium." Partisan Review 19, no. 3 (May 1952): 318-26.Excerpt (from the essay as published in The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent): The editors of Partisan Review have long been thought to give a rather special credence and sympathy to the… More
The Fate of Pleasure
– “The Fate of Pleasure.” Partisan Review, Summer 1963.Excerpt: Of all critical essays in the English language, there is none that has established itself so firmly in our minds as Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads. Indeed, certain of… More
Freud: Within and Beyond Culture
– “Freud: Within and Beyond Culture.” First delivered as “Freud and the Crisis of our Culture” for the Freud Anniversary Lecture in the New York Psychoanalytical Society and the New York Psychoanalytical Institute, May 1955. Subsequently published as Freud and the Crisis of our Culture (Boston: Beacon Press, 1955).Excerpt: And in the degree that society was personalized by the concept of culture, the individual was seen to be far more deeply implicated in society than ever before. This is not an idea… More
Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning
– New York: Viking, 1965.Summary: “In essays on education, literature, and psychoanalysis, Trilling addresses himself to the assumptions made by those who define themselves in terms of their relation to the… More
What is Criticism?
– "What is Criticism?" Introduction to Literary Criticism: An Introductory Reader, edited and with prefaces by Lionel Trilling. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.Aggression and Utopia
– "Aggression and Utopia." Originally published as "Aggression and Utopia: A Note on William Morris's 'News from Nowhere.'" Psychoanalytic Quarterly 42 (April 1973): 214-25.The Freud/Jung Letters
– "The Freud/Jung Letters." Review of The Freud-Jung Letters: The Correspondence Between Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung, edited by William McGuire, translated by Ralph Manheim and R.F.C. Hull (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974). New York Times Book Review, April 21, 1974, 1, 32-35.Excerpt: The relationship between Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung had its bright beginning in 1906 and came to its embittered end in 1913. Its disastrous course was charted by the many letters… More
Some Notes for an Autobiographical Lecture
– "Some Notes for an Autobiographical Lecture." An unfinished memoir, intended to be given as a lecture at Purdue University.The Last Decade: Essays and Reviews, 1965-1975
– Ed. Diana Trilling. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979.Summary: “Pieces written during the last ten years of Trilling’s life include important statements on Joyce, Austen, and Freud, a probing investigation of modern art, a memoir… More
Speaking of Literature and Society
– Trilling, Diana, ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.Summary: “Diana Trilling selected pieces from her husband’s previously uncollected writings covering the wide range of Trilling’s concerns from his undergraduate days… More
The Problem of Influence
– "The Problem of Influence." Review of Freudianism and the Literary Mind, Frederick J. Hoffman (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1945). Nation 161 (September 8, 1945): 234.Neurosis and the Health of the Artist
– "Neurosis and the Health of the Artist." Review of Leonardo da Vinci: A Study in Psychosexuality, by Sigmund Freud, translated by A. A. Brill (New York: Random House, 1947); and Stavrogin's Confession, by F. M. Dostoevsky, translated by Virginia Woolf and S. S. Koteliansky, with a psychoanalytical study of the author by Sigmund Freud (New York: Lear, 1947). New Leader 30 (December 13, 1947): 12.The Formative Years
– "The Formative Years." Originally published as "The Adventurous Mind of Dr. Freud." Review of The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Volume 1: The Formative Years, 1856-1901, by Ernest Jones (New York: Basic Books, 1953). New York Times Book Review, October 11, 1953, 1, 27.The Years of Maturity
– "The Years of Maturity." Originally published as "A Victory Built of Faith, Pertinacity, and Judgment." Review of The Life and Workd of Sigmund Freud, Vol. 11: Years of Maturity, 1901-1919, by Ernest Jones (New York: Basic Books, 1953). New York Times Book Review, September 18, 1955, 5.Last Years of a Titan
– "Last Years of a Titan." Originally published as "Suffering and Darkness Marked the Years of Triumph." Review of The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Vol. III: The Last Phase, 1919-1939, by Ernest Jones (New York: Basic Books, 1957). New York Times Book Review, October 18, 1957, 7, 36.Literary Pathology
– "Literary Pathology." Lecture given at the American Psychoanalytic Association, December 7, 1962.Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism
– Krupnick, Mark. Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1986.Lionel Trilling: An Annotated Bibliography
– Leitch, Thomas M. Lionel Trilling: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1993.Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves
– Rodden, John, ed. Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.Collection of essays by prominent critics on Trilling’s career; includes many of the most important essays on Trilling’s work published during his lifetime.
The Last Great Critic
– Glick, Nathan. “The Last Great Critic.” The Atlantic, July 2000.Excerpt: I CANNOT close this review without noting two contributions by the editor. John Rodden’s introductory survey of the contents of this collection is richly but casually… More
Regrets Only: Lionel Trilling and His Discontents
– Menand, Louis. "Regrets Only: Lionel Trilling and his discontents." New Yorker, September 29, 2008.Excerpt: Most people who picked up the book in 1950 would have understood it as an attack on the dogmatism and philistinism of the fellow-travelling left, but the term “liberal” is… More