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Jacobs, T. (1986). Blood Brothers. Siblings as Writers: Edited by Norman Kiell. New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1983. 434 pp.. Psychoanal Q., 55:168-170.

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(1986). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 55:168-170

Blood Brothers. Siblings as Writers: Edited by Norman Kiell. New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1983. 434 pp.

Theodore Jacobs Author Information

This collection of essays, edited by Norman Kiell, focuses on an aspect of creativity that is both fascinating in itself and uniquely interesting to psychoanalysts. In each of twelve chapters, the relationship of a pair of brothers who are writers is explored in an effort to shed light on the influence of the sibling relationship, not only on their personalities, but more specifically on their creative work.

Represented in these studies are a number of brother pairs whose independent achievements are well recognized: Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Aldous and Julian Huxley, Isaac Bashevis and I. J. Singer, Lytton and James Strachey, Anthony and Peter Shaffer, Lawrence and Gerald Durrell. In the case of others—James and Stanislaus Joyce, Oscar and Willie Wilde, Dante Gabriel and William Rossetti, Max Beerbohm and Herbert Beerbohm Tree—it was one brother who, in effect, was the writer of significance. The importance of the other in literary terms lay not so much in his own cr

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