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Freud and the Death of Vinkleman
Mann claimed that he hadn't read Freud by the time he wrote Death and Venice or the Magic Mountain. He later in the 1920s, the late 1920s said maybe I'd read a little bit of this and that but given his propensity for boasting about who he was in contact with it's unlikely he had - there's no evidence of it. But they were responding to a shared site guys so you could do a Freudian reading of Death and Venice that wouldn't be completely without some erotic subtexts as well.