| Imago | |
| Author: | Carl Spitteler |
| Country: | Switzerland |
| Language: | German |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Publisher: | E. Diederichs |
| Published: | 1906 |
| Pages: | 229 |
Imago is a 1906 autobiographical novel by Carl Spitteler. Spitteler's only novel, it tells of how a young writer returns to a small town where, four years earlier, he had met a woman who became his muse... only to learn that, in his absence, she has married someone else.
The book was cited by Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Hanns Sachs as a contributory factor in the early development of psychoanalysis.[1] Charles Baudouin proposed that Spitteler's prose works are intended as "commentaries on his major poems", and observed that Imago is "puzzling" unless read from this viewpoint.[2]