Gustav mahler: Entrea genialidade e a obsessão

Abstract

This paper aims to make a psychoanalytic reading of Gustav Mahler's life and work, in order to propose a relationship between genius and the obsessional neurosis that affected the musician, and his special relationship with death. Around some Mahler's works, as the cycle Kindertotenlieder, the 3rd and 10th Symphony -These latter unfinished -, we wove primarily oedipal, complex in which death, costumed or not, is presented as a possible solution. Special emphasis is given to the famed meeting of the composer with Freud and his "unique" analysis session.