Critical review.: 'Freud aux deux bouts'

Recent publications enable to stress detail or overall topics that had not up to now attracted attention. A footnote in a classical text to be found in the 6(th) volume of the French translation of Freud's works leads to question the origin, together with the psychological, philosophical and theological meanings, of the expression inter urinas et faeces nascimur. The publication, longed for for more than twenty years, of a French translation of the Complete Letters of Freud to Fliess stresses that, contrary to what the editors of the 1950 translation had pretended, Freud did indeed work hand in hand scientifically with Fliess. One also witnesses here the slow genesis of the "sexual theory" until 1905. The publication (in German) of Freud's and Eitingon's letters shows bow the latter was a faithful friend of Freud; giving both literary and clinical references, and also granting him a link with the Jewish organizations. In quite a different perspective, Lionel Naccache's recent book, entitled Le nouvel inconscient, highlights very vividly the cerebral processes corresponding to the unconscious as "non represented representation". Conversely, he criticizes quite interestingly but in a questionable way other aspects of the Freudian unconscious : i.e. its timelessness, its infantile origin, its relationship with repression.