The visual image and the Denkbild: Sigmund Freud and Walter Benjamin on history and remembrance.

The present paper offers a comparative reading of Sigmund Freud's and Walter Benjamin's thoughts on remembrance and history. Freud's dream thought, constructed from visual images, and Benjamin's dialectical image, and the Denkbild as its literary form, are presented as intriguingly intertwined concepts. They both refer to residues of regressive thought expressed through the medium of the German , which can be translated as image, picture or figure.

Georges Perec's : Creating a Space of Remembrance.

Georges Perec's memoir of his analysis, "The Scene of a Stratagem" (1977), is part of a literary oeuvre characterized by innovative forms addressing the paradoxical task of telling a story that cannot be told. His life history was constructed from memory traces, veiled behind the untimely death of his parents in World War II. The memoir tells the story of his analysis in adulthood with Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, at a time when Perec was struggling with depression and writer's block.

"Are we dead?": time in H. D.'s dialogue with Freud.

This paper presents H. D.'s dialogue with Freud on the theme of time and timelessness.

The Wolf Man's : Rereading Sergei Pankejeff's Memoir.

A comparative reading of Freud's canonical case study "From the History of an Infantile Neurosis" (1918) and the memoir written by the protagonist of that study, Sergei Pankejeff, known as the Wolf Man (1971a), centers on the complex matrix of meanings embodied in the act of lifting the veil. The neurotic symptom of a veil seemingly in front of the analysand's eyes is interpreted by Freud as a repetition of his birth in a (German for "caul," literally a "lucky hood"). The veil is represented as an ambivalent object both for Freud and for Pankejeff, who are enticed by the sense of a final truth behind the veil yet constantly doubt the possibility of grasping it.

Memory, Mourning, and Writing: Abram Kardiner's Memoir of Freud.

This paper offers a reading of psychoanalyst Abram Kardiner's memoir, which tells the story of his analytic encounter with Freud in the early 1920s. The memoir describes Kardiner's dependence on caretakers, parents, and psychoanalysts, as well as painful separations that are understood in relation to his deprived childhood. These memories were revived in analysis and then reactivated in its abrupt termination.

'For our garden of remembrance is somewhere else': Narratives of separation through the eyes of Freud's patients.

This article presents a unique collection of narratives of separation - unique because the separation here is from psychoanalysis and from Freud as analyst. These narratives were published as part of memoirs written about Freud by three of his patients. Their narratives of separation give us an innovative point of view on the psychoanalytic process, in particular with respect to the importance they place on the termination phase of the analysis at a time when Freud himself had not given it much consideration.