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The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers
The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990.
Contents:
- Colin Maillard
- Juno of the Veii
- A Gingham Dress
- Badger
- Wo es war, soll ich werden
Acknowledgements:
- 'A Gingham Dress' is reprinted with the kind permission of the Santa Monica Review,
- 'Badger' with the kind permission of Conjunctions.
- A shorter version of 'Colin Maillard' was published in Granta.
- My few readers will recognize that 'Wo es war, soll ich werden' completes a trilogy begun with Apples and Pears (North Point Press, 1984) and The Jules Verne Steam Balloon (North Point Press, 1987). Freud's phrase, in which Jacques Lacan heard pre-Socratic eloquence, comes from his Neue Vorlesungen (lecture 31) and is a bone of contention among interpreters and translators.
- 'Colin Maillard' exfoliates from a photograph by Bernard Faucon;
- 'Juno of the Veii' derives from Plutarch's Life of Camillus.
- Tom White's execution is history; all the rest I have imagined."
Dedication: None
Note: GD's translation of 'wo es war, soll ich werden' is "where it was, there must I begin to be" (p. 61). Lecture XXXI may be found in Sigmund Freud, "The Dissection of the Psychical Personality" in New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Newly Translated and Edited by James Strachey, (New York: W.W. Norton, 1965), pp. 57-80. This text is the same as that in Volume XXII of the Standard Edition of The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, London: Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1964. Footnote to Lecture XXXI tells us that the greater part of this lecture derives from chapters 1, 2, 3, and 5 of The Ego and the Id (London and New York, 1962), published in his Gesammelte Werke, volume 6, as Das Ich und das Es, Vienna, 1923. Strachey's translation is "Where Id was, there Ego shall be." (p. 80)
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