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The Final Reminder
This taboo-breaking book deepens the understanding of the death of one's parents through the experiences of the author, a daughter of Holocaust survivors. Her parents never communicated their imprisonment experiences, causing Lydia Flem to grow up in a stifling silence that was finally broken upon their deaths as she emptied the old house. She discovers that the lonely process of bereavement is not only one of grieving, but a chaotic jumble of emotions that range from anger and oppressive, infinite pain to revulsion, remorse, and a strange sense of freedom.
Freud the Man
The world knows Freud as a thinker--one of the founding giants of modern culture. Now Lydia Flem paints a unique and unforgettable portrait of Frued the man: a father, husband, and friend, a secular Jew with passion for classical antiquity and European culture, torn between his need to be fully accepted in an anitsemitic society while remaining fatihful to his orgins. Flem enters into the depths of Freud's creativity, showing how his thinking is connected to his immersion in the arts, the history of religions, and mythology. The intimate details of his daily life, his relationships with women, his poetic gifts, his travels, his dreams, his letters to family, friends, and colleagues: all reve...
Casanova, Or, The Art of Happiness
Casanova had been judged a Don Juan of the salons, cold and indifferent to women, but in this account, Lydia Flem rediscovers him as she believes he really was - an ardent hero of the Enlightenment, a man of great charm, imagination and vitality, a true friend and lover of women.
Obsession
We live in an age of obsession. Not only are we hopelessly devoted to our work, strangely addicted to our favorite television shows, and desperately impassioned about our cars, we admire obsession in others: we demand that lovers be infatuated with one another in films, we respond to the passion of single-minded musicians, we cheer on driven athletes. To be obsessive is to be American; to be obsessive is to be modern. But obsession is not only a phenomenon of modern existence: it is a medical category—both a pathology and a goal. Behind this paradox lies a fascinating history, which Lennard J. Davis tells in Obsession. Beginning with the roots of the disease in demonic possession and its secular successors, Davis traces the evolution of obsessive behavior from a social and religious fact of life into a medical and psychiatric problem. From obsessive aspects of professional specialization to obsessive compulsive disorder and nymphomania, no variety of obsession eludes Davis’s graceful analysis.
Casanova
Offers an unconventional view of Casanova as a benevolent lover of women, an ardent believer in the Enlightment, who grew from a sickly Venetian infant, abandoned by his actress mother, to become a spirited voluptuary
Discours de réception de Lydia Flem à l'Académie royale de Belgique accueillie par Jacques De Decker
Discours de réception de Lydia Flem à l'Académie royale de Belgique accueillie par Jacques de Decker.
Narratives of the Therapeutic Encounter
This collection of essays explores the ways in which talking therapies have been depicted in twentieth century and contemporary narratives (life-writings, fiction and poetry) in French. This vibrant corpus of francophone literary engagements of therapy has so far been widely unexplored, but it offers rich insights into the connections between literature and psychoanalysis. As the number of autobiographical and fictional depictions of the therapeutic encounter is still on the rise, these creative outputs raise pressing questions: why do narratives of the therapeutic encounter continue to fascinate writers and readers? What do these works tell us about the particular culture and history in whi...
La Reine Alice
Hommage discret à Lewis Carroll, l’héroïne traverse réellement le miroir lorsqu’elle se découvre un cancer. Dans le laboratoire du Grand Chimiste ou chez Lady Cobalt, elle converse avec des objets magiques et des personnages extravagants : la Licorne, Cherubino Balbozar, le Grincheux, le docteur H., les Contrôleurs, la Plume, l’Attrape-Lumière... Persécutée par les uns, protégée par les autres, la dame aux turbans se joue des épreuves et devient la Reine Alice.Lydia Flem a l’élégance de parler de choses graves avec tendresse, humour et malice. D’une grande intensité, ce roman invente une langue pour dire le désarroi qui peut nous mordre à certains moments de l’existence : entre rires et larmes.Membre de l’Académie Royale de Belgique, Lydia Flem publie ici son dixième livre. Elle est traduite en une quinzaine de langues.
