12.23.2023 - By Patrick & Abby
In the latest installment of the Standard Edition, Abby continues the conversation about the Fliess Extracts section of SE Volume 1 with novelist and literary critic Christine Smallwood. We discuss fragments, continuity and discontinuity, and narrative and lack thereof; the first instances of the use of the terms libido and projection and what they mean at this point; the relationship between anxiety and melancholia; a fascinating diagram Freud terms a “schematic picture of sexuality”; and a ...