MOURNING FREUD. By Madelon Sprengnether. New York: Bloomsbury, 2018. 288 pp.

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Notes

1 Blum, H. (1977). The prototype of preoedipal reconstruction. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 25:757-785.

2 Freud, S. (1923). The Ego and the Id, S.E. XIX, p. 33.

3 Freud, S. (1909). Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis, S.E. X: p. 206, n. 1.

4 Freud, S. Letter to Fliess, October 3, 1897. Jeffrey M. Masson, ed. and trans., The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904 (New York: Belknap Books, 1986). Freud does not tell this story elsewhere.

5 Freud, S. (1927). An Autobiographical Study, S.E. XX, p. 63, fn. 1.

6 Quoted in Jones, E., The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud. New York: Basic Books, 1957. Vol 3, p. 162.

7 McElavaine, R. (2001). Eve’s Seed. New York: McGraw-Hill.

8 Freud, S. (1900). Preface to First Edition of The Interpretation of Dreams, pp. xxiii-xxiv.

9 Person, Ethel (ed.) (1997). On Freud’s “A Child is Being Beaten.” New Haven: Yale Univ. Press.

10 Freud, S. (1912). Recommendations to Physicians Practicing Psycho-analysis. S.E. XII, p. 115.

11 See the 2018 novel Freshwater, by Akwaeke Emezi, for a semi-autobiographical account of what many of us would label dissociative identity disorder.

12 Waugaman, Richard M. (2003). “Unconscious Communication and Literature.” Psychiatry, 66:214-221.