Freud's Requiem: Mourning, Memory, and the Invisible History of a Summer Walk
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (714 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1594481997 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Matthew Von Unwerth is the director of the Abraham Brill Library of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute & Society, and a coordinator of the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination. He is a candidate in psychoanalytic training in New York City
Fascinating Freud John Mathews A very favorable review in the New York Times led me to "Freud's Requiem." The book gave me a fascinating entry into the world of Freudian thought and concise explanations of many of Freud's key concepts, including his view of love, memory, repression sublimation, mourning,and death. It also told intriguing stories of Freud's relationships with figures, including Nietzsche, Rilke and the little-known, remarkable, . "Two Paths to the Soul" according to Morgan C. Harting. Von Unwerth has taken a conversation between Freud and Rilke that might not have even happened as a clever starting point for a learned reflection on the relative virtues of art and science as means of accessing the soul. We learn that Freud had a great appreciation for the artist's ability to express the depths of the self, something his psychoanalysis sought to achieve through a scientific process. Likewise, Ril. "A transporting evocation of extraordinary people, their ideas and their epoch" according to Charles S. Stark. I picked up Freud's Requiem just after putting down Will in the World, Stephen Greenblatt's brilliant and monumental literary biography of Shakespeare. That was a happy coincidence for me, because it made me see how much these two very fine books have in common. Matthew von Unwerth, a first-book author, is no Stephen Greenblatt, who has eight books written and six books edited to his credit, and holds a distinguis
In Freud's Requiem, their philosophical musing becomes a prism through which to consider Freud's ideas about creativity, his crises of spirit, and his experiences of loss.. Freud's 1915 essay On Transience recorded a summertime conversation with two unnamed companions-who were thought to be poet Rainer Maria Rilke and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas- Salomé
All rights reserved. Outlining biographies of the couple, and revealing Freud's paternal relationship to both, Von Unwerth stages an extended meditation on Freud's emotional and intellectual life at the time: "Freud's sentimental prose poem opens to reveal a panorama of the mind of the man who wrote it, a mind that, for all its generative brilliance, is as sentimental, troubled, and torn as that of any of his patients." Emphasizing the literary qualities of Freud's work, and providing various proofs of the aging psychoanalyst's nostalgic relationship to his own past, including the locales of his childhood and the experience of lost adolescent love, Unwerth proffers biographical interpretations of Freud's theories on love, attachment, narcissism, grief and mourning, in an accessible, intriguing and daringly speculative study of a little-k