
Cinema· Saarbrücken
La Gradiva
La Gradiva refers to Wilhelm Jensen's 1903 novella about an archaeologist, Norbert Hanold, who becomes obsessed with a Roman relief carving of a woman walking—whom he names "Gradiva" ("she who steps")—and begins to believe she has appeared to him as a ghost in Pompeii. The story became especially famous as the subject of Sigmund Freud's 1907 psychoanalytic study *Delusions and Dreams in Jensen's G