ISBN: 0826480322
Godina izdanja: 2006
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Matthew von Unwerth - Freud`s Requiem: Mourning, Memory, and the Invisible History of a Summer Walk
Continuum, 2006
244 str.
tvrdi povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

In this narrative, a young writer explores Sigmund Freud`s provocative ideas on creativity and mortality and their roots in his history, while searching for broader lessons about love, memory, mourning, and creativity.` `Written in 1915 during winter and wartime, Freud`s little-known essay `On Transience` records a summertime conversation with `a young but already famous poet` and his `taciturn friend` about mortality, eternity, and the `sense` of life. In Freud`s Requiem, the philosophical disagreement between Freud and his companions - who may have been the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and his muse and former lover Lou Andreas-Solome - becomes a prism through which to consider Freud`s creativity as a response to his own experiences, from his passionately curious, lovestruck teenage years to his death after a long struggle with cancer in 1939.` `By tracing the connections among Freud`s ideas, his personality, and the world he lived in, Matthew von Unwerth examines the links that Freud made between art and memory. Freud`s Requiem contemplates how, in mourning, we tell stories about our lives that give form and meaning to the events and feelings that threaten to overwhelm us. In recounting our stories, especially our darkest moments, we make sense of them and reclaim lost aspects of our lives, just as Freud did in his account of a summer`s walk with a poet and a taciturn companion.

Contents:
Cover
Freud`s Requiem
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX: ON TRANSIENCE
NOTES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY


Nonfiction, Psychology, 0826480322