Synopses & Reviews
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. 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.
Synopsis
A young Freudian analyst explores Freud's provocative ideas on the connections between creativity and mortality in this elegant literary musing conducted through a reading of Freud's argument about creativity with poet Rainer Maria Rilke.
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.