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Time Lived Without Its Flow: Denise Riley, Max Porter, Emily Berry

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Freud's Unfixedness

Freud redeemed himself after his 19-18 morning in melancholia. Later on after the death of his daughter Sophie, Freud writes a letter to a friend of his and says that after a death there remains a gap which is not fillable. So Freud gives up all notions of the serene filling in and the serene smoothing over. That's that unfixedness is precisely what your to avoid I think. It prevents the landing on that or the landing in the eye of supposedly of the poem or whatever.

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