This taboo-breaking book deepens the understanding of the death of one's parents through the experiences of the author, a daughter of Holocaust survivors. Her parents never communicated their imprisonment experiences, causing Lydia Flem to grow up in a stifling silence that was finally broken upon their deaths as she emptied the old house. She discovers that the lonely process of bereavement is not only one of grieving, but a chaotic jumble of emotions that range from anger and oppressive, infinite pain to revulsion, remorse, and a strange sense of freedom.

The Final Reminder: How I Emptied My Parents' House

Self-Help

Flem, Lydia

Death & Grief

Souvenir Press

Offers an unconventional view of Casanova as a benevolent lover of women, an ardent believer in the Enlightment, who grew from a sickly Venetian infant, abandoned by his actress mother, to become a spirited voluptuary

Casanova: The Man Who Really Loved Women

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Noonday Pr

Casanova had been judged a Don Juan of the salons, cold and indifferent to women, but in this account, Lydia Flem rediscovers him as she believes he really was - an ardent hero of the Enlightenment, a man of great charm, imagination and vitality, a true friend and lover of women.

Casanova Or the Art of Happiness

Temerson, Catherine

Allen Lane.

The world knows Freud as a thinker--one of the founding giants of modern culture. Now Lydia Flem paints a unique and unforgettable portrait of Frued the man: a father, husband, and friend, a secular Jew with passion for classical antiquity and European culture, torn between his need to be fully accepted in an anitsemitic society while remaining fatihful to his orgins. Flem enters into the depths of Freud's creativity, showing how his thinking is connected to his immersion in the arts, the history of religions, and mythology. The intimate details of his daily life, his relationships with women, his poetic gifts, his travels, his dreams, his letters to family, friends, and colleagues: all reveal his vision of the unconscious. We accompany Freud on his walks through Vienna and Rome; look over his shoulder as he writes to his fiancee; learn the significance of the Greek, Roman, and Egyptian figurines that stand before him on his desk as he conceives his groundbreaking ideas; and discover the books, read in childhood, that later shape his self-analysis and his theoretical development. Flem draws on an unusually broad range of sources, but she wears her learning lightly: her biography of Freud reads like a novel, full of vivid details and captivating human interest. From the 6-year-old gleefully tearing up a book illustrated with pictures of Persia; to the young doctor balancing his scientific training with his love of Shakespeare; to the psychoanalyst in his prime, conquering the resistance to his theories; to the old man, ravaged by illness, forced to flee into exile in England, Lydia Flem leads us deep into the life of a genius.

Freud the Man: An Intellectual Biography

Arts & Literature

Other Press

Professionals & Academics

L'Homme Freud. Une biographie intellectuelle

History

Europe

SEUIL

Lydia Flem raconte comment elle a vidé la maison de ses parents. Pour chaque objet, chaque meuble, chaque vêtement, chaque papier, il n’y avait que quatre directions, comme à la croisée des chemins la rose des vents : garder, offrir, vendre ou jeter. Cette épreuve, qui arrive à chacun de nous (ne devient-on pas orphelin à tout âge ?) est ici l’occasion d’un livre bouleversant, écrit avec sensibilité, humour et sans tabou.À l’écart de tout dolorisme, un livre au ton juste qui formule avec autant de lucidité que de tendresse « des sentiments inavouables ».

Comment j'ai vidé la maison de mes parents

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

POINTS

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