Abstract:Early twentieth-century psychoanalytic encounters were typically mediated through the case study, a kind of "sur-narrative"âone constructed from above and temporally beyond the physician-patient encounter â in which the physician fills in what Freud calls "gaps" and "imperfections" of the patient's own repression-addled narrative. However, there are cases in twentieth-century modernism of patients creating their own sur-narratives, not case studies, but homages, which do not so much fill in the gaps as co… Show more
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