Provides a basic argument that, with stunning clarity, William Blake anticipated the most important conceptions about human nature authored by Sigmund Freud and by the revisionists of psychoanalysis, Carl Jung and Otto Rank. This introductory work clearly describes the central conclusions about human personality reached by the three psychological theorists before illustrating their essential anticipation in Blake's poetry.

Provides a basic argument that, with stunning clarity, William Blake anticipated the most important conceptions about human nature authored by Sigmund Freud and by the revisionists of psychoanalysis, Carl Jung and Otto Rank. This introductory work clearly describes the central conclusions about human personality reached by the three psychological theorists before illustrating their essential anticipation in Blake's poetry.