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Freud's Requiem: Mourning, Memory, and the Invisible History of a Summer Walk - Softcover

Von Unwerth, Matthew

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9781594481994: Freud's Requiem: Mourning, Memory, and the Invisible History of a Summer Walk

Synopsis

A meditation on Sigmund Freud's theories about the link between creativity and mortality is based on the essay "On Transience" as well as other literary works, in an analysis that places Freud's beliefs against the backdrop of his teen years, struggle with cancer, and death. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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About the Author

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.

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