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ERNST FALZEDER AND EVA BRABANT WITH THE COLLABORATION OF PATRIZIA GIAMPIERI-DEUTSCH (EDS): The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi Volume 2, pp 1914-1919 The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996, 395 pp, $4695, ISBN 0-674-17419-4 This sad, poignant, and gripping collection of the correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi during World War I is as fascinating and revealing a publication as one can imagine Freud is often criticized for having blundered badly into a boundary crossing, demanding that Ferenczi choose between the two women he "loved" (a mother and her daughter, both of whom were his analysands!) by marrying the mother, who was eight years older than Ferenczi This occurred at the same time Ferenczi was putatively an analysand of Freud's, having experienced some short periods on the couch representing this "psychoanalysis" that Freud considered "finished, not terminated, but rather broken off because of unfavorable circumstances" (p 153) The personalities of the two correspondents emerge dramatically in their letters Ferenczi is mercurial, unstable, passionate and neurotic He addresses Freud as "Dear Professor"; Freud in turn writes to him as "Dear Friend" Freud is solid, stable and somewhat gloomy, as well as consistent, mature, and dedicated His intense internal struggle to maintain a certain analytic distance from Ferenczi is quite manifest, while at the same time his need for the friendship and his appreciation for Ferenczi's warmth and devotion to him is apparent All this occurs against the background of being on the losing side in World War I, with the miseries and frustrations that obviously entailed Freud at one point had three sons in uniform and was very much worried about each of them; Ferenczi's career was continually disrupted by calls to serve as a military physician, a disruption that made it almost impossible for him to dedicate himself to psychoanalysis He was so determined to continue this dedication that he even attempted to analyze his commanding officer while they were both on horseback, the first instance, as he puts it, of "hippic" psychoanalysis (p 50) Given the background of this terrible war it is easier to empathize with the struggles of both Freud and Ferenczi to maintain some kind of stability and to continue a very human relationship that was sometimes one of an analyst and patient and sometimes one of an older with a younger friend Freud has been much criticized for this vacillation, but without it I am certain that both parties would have suffered greatly, and Ferenczi, the patient, most of all Probably Freud's most glaring mistake was to write directly to Ferenczi's intended betrothed, conveying an offer of marriage at Ferenczi's request In the outstanding introduction to this book by Axel Hoffer, it is suggested that Freud had, at least, an unconscious attraction to Ferenczi's betrothed himself, which might account for Freud's continual pressure on Ferenczi to marry her This may or may not be so, but it does raise the issue of the status of Martha, Freud's wife She is rarely referred to in this almost 400 page volume of correspondence, and when she is mentioned, it is in a rather disparaging manner by Freud, characterizing her as essentially a fuss-budget who has little tolerance of discomfort For example, Freud writes, "I don't dare bring my wife to an unknown second- or third-rate Hungarian spa …

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The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi

This article compares the ruins of Detroit and Namibia, focusing on the ways that previously dominant white groups use those ruins. In both cases ruined buildings appeal to these groups as particularly evocative objects. While the ruin seems always to signify transience, mortality and historicity, its more specific meanings are semantically underdetermined, varying by historical context and social group. Many white suburbanites use Detroit's industrial ruins to nourish their nostalgic longing for the city's golden era of Fordist prosperity. This does not seem to entail any confusion of past and present, however. The nostalgic object is unambiguously perceived as historical. By contrast, German‐Namibians use colonial ruins to satisfy and perpetuate a sense of melancholia that simultaneously denies and acknowledges the end of German colonial power. Both forms of consciousness prefer ruins that are gradually being reassimilated into nature to the restored heritage sites of the tourist industry.

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The heroes of the British and French empires stood at the vanguard of the vibrant cultures of imperialism that emerged in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century. Yet imperial heroes did not disappear after 1945 as British and French flags were lowered around the world. On the contrary, their reputations underwent a variety of metamorphoses in both the former metropoles and the former colonies. The introduction to this special issue of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History presents an overview of the changing history and historiography of imperial heroes half a century after the end of empire.

Decolonising Imperial Heroes: Britain and France

Introduction: Kafka's Travels? Transcending the Exotic: Nostalgia, Exoticism, and Kafka's Early Travel Novel, Richard and Samuel The "America" Novel: Learning How to Get Lost Travelling at Home: The Trial and the Exotic Heimat Savage Travel: Sadism and Masochism in "In the Penal Colony" Surveying the Castle: Kafka's Colonial Visions The Traffic of Writing: Technologies of Verkehr in the Letters to Milena Epilogue: Kafka's Remains: Travel, Death, and the Exotic Journey Home

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Critical of the European travel writer’s proclivity for self-location and self-affirmation, postmodern voyagers have attempted to lose their way while traveling. Roland Barthes, for example, describes Tokyo in Empire of Signs (1982 [1970]) as a city with ‘no addresses’: a place where he cannot read the map; where he cannot adequately direct his taxi driver; finally, where he must ask the taxi driver to pull over and phone the people he is trying to reach. But getting lost is not, for Barthes, a bad thing. It corresponds to a larger project of unsettling European travel writing’s purported psychological and political mastery: when a person wanders astray, he or she is subject to what Barthes calls ‘a certain disturbance’ that unsettles the constructs of ‘Orient’ and ‘Occident’. Barthes’ theoretical descendants have pushed these claims even further, claiming that losing one’s way – literally and philosophically – leads to a deterritorialization of knowledge: literary wandering subverts the ‘arrogance’ of di...

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Edgar Allan Poe's legendary detective, Dupin, insisted that the good detective know how to read his criminal, how to decipher his “intellect” and “identify” with it (“The Purloined Letter” 118).

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Interest in travel writing has grown rapidly within the disciplines of postcolonial and cultural studies; however, recent scholarship has failed to place travel writing within the larger literary tradition. Writing Travel assembles a superb collection of essays that demonstrate how travel attempts to reconfigure the world and, in so doing, to become a metaphor for imagination, subjectivity, and representation itself. Examining a broad range of texts and travellers from across the world, the contributors discuss canonical authors such as Homer, Goethe, and Baudelaire, alongside lesser known writers such as Theodor Herzl, Hans Erich Nossack, and William Gibson. This theoretically rich volume draws connections between travel and narrative, and provides powerful insights into the relationship between travel and the spoken act of storytelling, as well as the more ambivalent act of story writing. An engaging collection of essays by first-rate scholars, Writing Travel is an illuminating exploration of the history of travel writing, its influence on other literary genres, and the origins of narrative.

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