Posts for the “E. Notes on Freudian works” category
Further comments on ‘perverse jouissance’: Seminar VII: session of 18th November 1959
by Julia Evans on October 22, 2012
1) These comments follow from those in Notes from p1 – 7 of Seminar VII from the 21-09-12 Reading Group Meeting or here ‘perverse jouissance’ is found on the (…)
Notes from p1 – 7 of Seminar VII from the 15th September Reading Group Meeting
by Julia Evans on September 15, 2012
During the introduction to the Reading Group, Bruno de Florence volunteered to read the seminar in French to check the translation. It transpires there are a number of mistakes and (…)
‘Meno’, Montaigne and the ‘Docta Ignorantia’: Some thoughts and comments on the weak symbolic in the 21st century
by Bruce Scott on January 21, 2012
Plato’s Dialogue, ‘Meno’, (written in the middle of the fourth century B.C.E. [i]) is a wonderful example of an anti-technological and anti-systemizing stance towards psychotherapy or psychoanalysis. In the ‘Meno’, (…)
Introduction to Schreber’s ‘Memoirs of my nervous illness’: 1973: Samuel Weber
by Julia Evans on February 1, 1988
Introduction to the 1988 edition by Samuel Weber, Translated by Benjamin Gregg ( The introduction to the 1988 edition was originally published in German as the introduction to Daniel Paul (…)
A short introduction to Sigmund Freud’s life
by Julia Evans on January 1, 1962
Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 in Moravia; between the ages of four and eighty-two his home was in Vienna; in 1938 Hitler’s invasion of Austria forced him to seek (…)
Jerome, or Death in the Life of the Obsessional: May 28th 1956 : Serge Leclaire
by Julia Evans on May 28, 1956
This paper was first read by Serge Leclaire before the Société Française de Psychanalyse on May 28th 1956. Published 1) ‘La Mort dans la vie de l’obsédé’ : La Psychanalyse: (…)
A short biography of Sigmund Freud
by Julia Evans on September 23, 1939
The following shows some of the turning-points in Sigmund Freud’s work. Events such as the publication of important papers, interactions with colleagues and a few domestic are also included.[i] 6 (…)
It almost looks as if analysis were the third of those ‘impossible’ professions in which one can be sure beforehand of achieving unsatisfying results. The other two, which have been known much longer, are education and government: Sigmund Freud
by Julia Evans on January 2, 1937
Quote from Sigmund Freud, who wrote this 75 years ago, [i] as follows: And finally we must not forget that the analytic relationship is based on a love of truth – (…)
The Psychogenesis of a case of Homosexuality in a Woman: 1920: Sigmund Freud
by Julia Evans on January 1, 1920
Originally published in German as: Über die Psychogenese Eines Falles von Weiblicher Homosexualität (A) References to German Editions: 1920 Int. Z. Psychoanal., Vol 6 (1), p1-24 1947 Gesammelte Werke, (…)
Self-punishment paranoia: 1916: Sigmund Freud
by Julia Evans on January 1, 1916
Quote from: Criminals from a Sense of Guilt[i]: Sigmund Freud: 1916 In telling me about their early youth, particularly before puberty, people who have afterwards often become very respectable (…)