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 | Freud’s Requiem by Matthew Von Unwerth | Reviewed by Harriet Klausner | |
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| Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
http://www.us.penguingroup.com ISBN: 157322247X Genre: Non-Fiction Subgenre: Philosophy Release date: Jul 2005 Format: Hardcover Pages: 256 Price: $16.29 | |||
| Psychoanalyst Dr. Matthew Von Unwerth uses as his jumping off point Sigmund Freud's poetic essay "On Transience", written in 1915 but apparently rarely evaluated, especially in light of the massive volumes on the works of the “father of psychoanalysis.” The appendix provides the entire short work in which Freud describes a walking talk on life and death, mortality and grief with two friends (Unwerth makes a case they are lovers Lou Andreas Salome and Rainer Maria Rilke). The tome provides information on the pair, including their break-up, and makes an argument that Freud had a fatherly relationship with the pair. However, the prime focus of the tome is Freud, brilliant and troubled, sentimental and detached, emotional and intellectual. In other words the doctor is also the patient.
This is an engrossing look at Dr. Freud built mostly from a psychoanalytical speculation of the state of mind of the sixty something doctor as war is all over the continent. In some ways it feels like an insightful treatise but very entertaining, as Freud has rarely been seen as more intriguing than with Dr. Unwerth’s placing him on the couch for the audience to observe. | |||
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