Freud's Requiem: Mourning, Memory, and the Invisible History of a

Freud's 1915 essay "On Transience" recorded a summertime conversation with two unnamed companions-who were thought to be poet Rainer Maria Rilke and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas- Salom?. In "Freud's Requiem," their philosophical musing becomes a prism through which to consider Freud's ideas about creativity, his crises of spirit, and his experiences of loss.