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Madelon Sprengnether, Ph.D.
Madelon Sprengnether is a poet, memoirist, and literary critic and Regents Professor Emerita of the Department of English at the University of Minnesota. Her publications include The (M)other Tongue: Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation (1985) and The Spectral Mother: Freud, Feminism and Psychoanalysis (1995). In addition, she has published three memoirs and three collections of poetry. Her most recent books are Great River Road: Memoir and Memory (2015), Near Solstice: Prose Poems (2015), and Mourning Freud (2018). She is also a regular blogger for Psychology Today. For more information, consult her website: www.madelonsprengnether.com
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From Freud’s Mourning to Mourning Freud

Madelon Sprengnether, Ph.D.

Berkeley City Club 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

The modernist Freud of the early twentieth century has ceded to the postmodern Freud of the twenty-first. My book Mourning Freud examines this phenomenon from the perspective of Freud's self-analysis in relation to his generation of theory, the challenges and transformations wrought by feminism, cultural studies, and postmodernism, and the speculations of contemporary neuroscience regarding the unreliability […]