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Freud's Writing: His (W)Rite of Passage and Its Reverberations

Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, Mahony{at}videotron.ca, Université de Montréal

The study of Freud's personal conception of writing and his use of it illuminates a significant aspect of his relationship with others, and also his sense of his own heroic greatness. In two related periods of his life, acts of writing—which were notably overdetermined in Freud and which informed as well as facilitated a distinctive kind of selfexpression—gave rise to veritable (w)rites of passage. In those periods, the transferential dynamics in Freud's relationships with Fliess, his daughter Anna, and certain important analysands were expressed in ways connected with the content and process of various types of writing, including editing and translating. In sum, there is something still to be discovered in Freud's attitudes to his writing and to related intergenerational transactions between analysts and analysands who engage together in compositional activities.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol. 50, No. 3, 885-907 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/00030651020500031401


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