A meditation on Sigmund Freud's theories about the link between creativity and mortality is based on the essay, "On Transience" as well as other literary works, in an analysis that places Freud's beliefs against the backdrop of his teen years, struggle with cancer, and death. 15,000 first printing.
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Matthew von Unwerth is director of the Abraham A. Brill Library of the New York Psychoanalytical Institute and Society, and a coordinator of the Phylacteries Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination.
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