Citation

Vaslamatzis G. Int. Forum Psychoanal. 2020; 29(1): 22-26.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Scandinavian University Press)

DOI

10.1080/0803706X.2019.1683605

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In "Sleeping memories"(2017), French writer Patrick Modiano confronts the past and his memories in a different way compared with his previous novels, as he keeps trying to revisit and reprocess them. In this book he adds a new method, the dreaming revision of memories, especially traumatic ones, turning to the work of Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys, "Les rêves et les moyens de les diriger: Observations pratiques." I would suggest that in this way he dreams undreamt traumas, thereby transforming them. In doing so, Modiano meets Thomas Ogden's art of psychoanalysis. © 2020, © 2020 The International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies.

Language: en

Keywords

memory; literature; human; violence; suicide; injury; university; empathy; neighborhood; fantasy; psychoanalysis; comprehension; priority journal; leukemia; medical specialist; recording; puberty; Article; life history; autobiographical memory; dreaming; Ogden; sleeping memory; transgenerational trauma