Roger Willoughby a mis en ligne les 4 volumes de mes chemins croisés sur le site historiesofpsychoanalysis.com
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These four volumes confront Luc Mary-Rabine’s love of antiquity and psychoanalysis with Freud’s numerous trips to Italy, his endless collection and his passion for literature. The author illustrated some texts, dreams and correspondence with his own photographs and comments, hence the title “Chemins Croisés”, crossing pathways. Volume I starts in Vienna, 19 Berggasse, and follows Freud in his trips to Venice (1895, 1897 & 1898), in his discovery of Florence and Tuscany (1896 & 1897), Verona and Milan (1898), Rome (1901), Naples and Pompei (1902). Those are the crucial years of Freud’s auto-analysis, the discovery of the sexual aetiology of neuroses and the Oedipus complex. He starts collecting antiques and is passionate about archeology. He publishes The Interpretation of Dreams. Psychoanalysis was born.
Volume II starts in Athens and Freud’s experience on the Acropolis (1904), then the Italian lakes (1905), Florence and Rome (1907), Rome and Sicily with Ferenczi (1910), Rome again with Ferenczi (1912), Venice with Anna (1913) and Rome with Minna Bernays (1913). Psychoanalysis is now recognised internationally and deals not only with neuroses but also with art and literature: Jensen’s Gradiva, Leonardo da Vinci’s Anna Metterza, Michelangelo’s Moses. Alas, the decade is interrupted by World War I and I include in this volume my photographs of the war vestiges and Freud’s writings on violence and death.
Volume III focuses on the last trip to Rome (1923). It is the longest: three weeks with his Antigone and we follow Freud and Anna day by day, step by step, in Rome and Tivoli. Upon his return to Vienna he is operated by Professor Pichler for a palate cancer. We then follow Freud in his love of dogs, in his collection of antiques, especially in Oedipus’ figures, and the use of archeology in the psychoanalytic theories.
Volume IV is different from the previous books and deals with the author’s and Freud’s attitude towards age, illness, books, photography and Judaism. It focuses especially on the significance of traces and on the role of photography in Freud’s life and metaphors. Then we follow Freud in his last trip, not to Rome, but to London and the final journey.

