Transience and hope: A return to Freud in a time of pandemic

2021/01/02 by Jonathan Lear · 1 citation
Psychology · #Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

paper · doi:10.1080/00207578.2021.1875836

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Abstract

This essay is about what it is like to read Freud again in the time of the coronavirus pandemic. It offers a close reading of Freud's essay "On Transience" and it brings to light how it might be read differently with the thoughts of world-catastrophe on our minds.

Citations

• A Conversation between Freud and Rilke

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• On Transience [wikipedia]

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