1st Edition

Psychoanalysis After Freud Memory, Mourning and Repetition

By Judy Gammelgaard Copyright 2022
148 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

148 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

148 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book draws on a number of Freud's lesser-known works to explore psychoanalytic perspectives on memory, mourning and repetition. It is remarkable that Freud in his speculations on the human psyche often took his point of departure in an insignificant detail. It might be a lapse of memory or a detail in a piece of art. From here he uncovered the many layers of the psyche, its complex... Read more
  1. On transience  2. A disturbance of memory  3. The mystic writing pad  4. They suffer from reminiscences  5. Narcissism  6. On the symptom  7. Why war?  8. Questioning civilization  9. On love  10. The uncanny  11. Psychoanalysis at the frontier

Biography

Judy Gammelgaard, professor, Dr. of Philosophy  and psychoanalyst has written a great many books and articles, some based on clinical experiences, while others are elaborations of psychoanalytic theory and concepts. She has for many years been especially interested in bringing psychoanalysis into dialogue with literature, art and culture