Confessions

The most important was his Confessions, modeled on the work of the same title by St. Augustine and achieving something of the same classic status. He also wrote Rousseau juge de Jean-Jacques (1780; Rousseau, Judge of Jean-Jacques) to reply to specific charges by his enemies and Les Rêveries du promeneur…

…political and social theorist, the Confessions of J.-J. Rousseau—the latter leading to two autobiographical explorations in poetry during the Romantic Movement in England, Wordsworth’s Prelude and Byron’s Childe Harold, cantos III and IV. Significantly, it is at the end of the 18th century that the word autobiography apparently first appears…

…addiction to drug taking, and Confessions (1782–89), the intimate autobiography of French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The Confessions of Nat Turner (1832) is the confession of Nat Turner, an enslaved Black man who led the only effective, sustained slave rebellion (August 1831) in U.S. history. It was dictated in the days…

Confessions). Here he suggests that self-knowledge is to be achieved by a growing familiarity with the unconscious, a recognition of the importance of childhood in shaping the adult, and an acceptance of the role of sexuality—an anticipation of modern psychoanalysis. This original exploration of the…