Memories, or attempts to dream undreamt traumas? Souvenirs dormants (Sleeping memories) by Patrick Modiano, under the gaze of Thomas Ogden. (2nd January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Vaslamatzis, Grigoris
• Is Part Of: International forum of psychoanalysis. Volume 29:issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 22
• Page End: 26
• Publication Date: 2020-01-02
• Subjects: memory -- dreaming -- transgenerational trauma -- Ogden -- literature; Psychoanalysis -- Periodicals; 150.195
• DOI: 10.1080/0803706X.2019.1683605
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0803-706X

Abstract

Abstract: In " Sleeping memories "(2017), French writer Patrick Modiano confronts the past and his memories in a different way compared with his previous novels, as he keeps trying to revisit and reprocess them. In this book he adds a new method, the dreaming revision of memories, especially traumatic ones, turning to the work of Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys, " Les rêves et les moyens de les diriger: Observations pratiques ." I would suggest that in this way he dreams undreamt traumas, thereby transforming them. In doing so, Modiano meets Thomas Ogden's art of psychoanalysis.