Talk:Notes from the psychoanalysis of Knut Hamsun
This article (or one that was redirected to it) was nominated for deletion on July 10, 2017. The result of the discussion was Keep - No Consensus. |
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I do not think the article can stand on its own. The publication of the notes and the notes themselves do not seem to be notable enough to warrant an article. I think SOME of the information could be added to the Knut Hamsun article, but I do not see the need for this article. Only (talk) 17:29, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
- This article doesn't make any coherent claim to notability. After a quick look at his enwiki article, I can see that Hamsun's pro-Nazi views and writing a newspaper eulogy for Hitler would explain public interest in his mental state, but given that a major national newspaper published the eulogy, was he really so uniquely deviant as to make his therapist's notes notable in themselves? Anyway I don't think that has been asserted here. 87.17.124.249 (talk) 12:36, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
Oppose - The notes are arguably notable. Arguably the notability is adequately demonstrated in the article, and the article has multiple notable sources. Hamsun was a superstar at least in Norway, as one of few Norwegians to win the Nobel Prize in literature. The mention of being "deviant" and "national newspaper" seems to be a red herring, being entered into the discussion. The major national newspaper was under full control by the occupation government - and many (or most?) major newspapers were forcibly closed down.
Why some notes, done by psychoanalysts - and these ones done during 1926-1928 - become notable, and some don't, is a separate topic - somewhat like why some people become notable, while some don't (even though on the face of things, a non-notable entity might seem to compare favorably to a notable entity). Sju hav (talk) 20:47, 10 July 2017 (UTC)