Repetition – Davood Gozli

Reading “Fever” by Raymond Carver

By Davood Gozli | 27/03/202127/03/2021 by Davood Gozli

I’d like to begin by thanking Tyson Woolman for bringing up Raymond Carver in response to one of my recent videos. Today I found “Fever”, in a collection titled, American Short Story Masterpieces (Edited by Raymond Carver, himself, and Tom Jenks). I believe the story had initially appeared in a collection called, Cathedral, which I’m planning to read in full. “Fever” is a strange story. It doesn’t contain any dramatic event, any transformation of a…

Discourse Psychoanalysis Repetition

Repeating, Remembering, & Working Through

By Davood Gozli | 25/10/202026/10/2020 by Davood Gozli

The title of this post is a slightly altered version of an essay title by Sigmund Freud, “Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through,” in which he briefly describes the development and the task of analysis. With regard to development, he writes about replacing the method of hypnosis with more appropriate methods, including free association and dream interpretation. With regard to the task, Freud describes the process of working through transference. Working through transference is essentially working…