Childhood Memory Spaces

Previous considerations of Freud’s 1910 pathography of Leonardo da Vinci have grappled mainly with errors of fact (among them a mistranslation in the study’s signature childhood memory, widely known since the 1950s). Here a more consequential flaw is examined: Freud’s fatefully pathogenic framing of Leonardo’s homosexuality. While few present-day analysts share that perspective in its entirety, Freud’s complex and plausible reconstruction drew wide support in the literature for more than a century and has to date never been subjected to rigorous critique. A close reading of the study, exploring Freud’s perspective and that of later psychoanalysts and historians, seeks to account for the biography’s tenacious grip on the psychoanalytic imagination. In the end, it is argued, the pathography is a failed effort to grapple with an unsettling transformation unfolding around and within Freud: the emergence of the category that eventually would be called the “healthy homosexual.”

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Childhood Memory: An Update from the Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective

Forensic Interviews Regarding Child Sexual Abuse ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-21097-1_5 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 81-105

Author(s):

Dwight J. Peterson ◽

Kevin T. Jones ◽

Jaclyn A. Stephens ◽

Filiz Gözenman ◽

Marian E. Berryhill

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Neuroscience ◽

Childhood Memory

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Letter to my children from a place called Land

Global Studies of Childhood ◽

10.1177/2043610617703846 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 196-206 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Silvia Patricia Solís

Keyword(s):

Mexico Border ◽

Childhood Memory ◽

Us Mexico Border

Initially written in the form of an essay, this letter is written to my children from a place called Land. It unveils the entanglements coloniality creates in young, racialized, and gendered lives through the colonial logics structuring childhood, memory, and borders. From a diasporic perspective, Land emerges as flesh rooted in the saberes, the knowledge of our mothers and grandmothers. Remembering and returning to the places we call home, in my case, US/Mexico border, help us grapple with trauma and also learn ways people respond to the violence. I illuminate the colonial wounds we bare and the knowledge we carry to suture and heal.

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Dickens and the Wolf Man: Childhood Memory and Fantasy in David Copperfield

PMLA ◽

10.1632/pmla.2009.124.2.406 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 124 (2) ◽

pp. 406-420 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Robert E. Lougy

Keyword(s):

Case History ◽

The Other ◽

History Of Psychoanalysis ◽

History Of ◽

David Copperfield ◽

The One ◽

Childhood Memory ◽

Wolf Man

This essay draws on Freud's case history of the Wolf Man (From the History of an Infantile Neurosis; 1918), which presents one of the most famous dreams in the history of psychoanalysis, in order to consider a moment in David Copperfield (1850) that constitutes the earliest childhood memory in Dickens's fiction. These two moments in Freud and Dickens occupy problematic sites that seem to slide between fantasy on the one hand and dreams on the other, and an examination of them helps open up the question of how texts remember—or fantasize—childhood and its power to structure adult experience.

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