Freud Dreams of Rome, Volume I in the seriesFreud on Holiday, 2005 32 pages, Binding softback, 11 b&w photographs , tipped-in by hand, 230 mm x 145 mm Edition Information as material, York. Distribution Cornerhouse, Manchester.
Freud Dreams of Rome explores the longing for Rome which Freud felt as he worked on his seminal project The Interpretation of Dreams. Freud dreamt of visiting Rome four times before actually getting there. The book creates an uncanny atmosphere, as do the images, allowing the reader to take a dérive through Freud's imagination. The images - introduced as 'Freud's holiday photographs of Rome' - are rather strange. They show no people. They are oddly cropped. They reveal only impasses, dark courtyards, angles of buildings.
A Disturbance of Memory, volume II in the seriesFreud on Holiday, 2007 186 pages, softback, sewn, with screen printed dust jacket, 35 photographies and 15 b&willustrations, 230mm x 150mm. Published by information as material, York, and CUBEARTEDITIONS, Athens; introduction by Craig Saper. Greek translation: Maria Skamaga. Designed by Christos Lialios. December 2007. Distribution Cornerhouse, Manchester.
Like Sigmund Freud and his brother, Sharon Kivland and her sister go on holiday together each year. In Trieste in 1904 SF and his brother determine to go to Corfu but are told by their host it will be too hot and they should go to Athens instead. Any change of plan seems impractical, but they succeed in booking tickets for Athens. When Freud arrives in Athens and stands on the Acropolis he is surprised to find himself thinking: 'So all this really does exist, just as we learnt at school !' His surprise is twofold; first, that something unbelievable exists, and secondly, that its existence should have been in doubt. In A Disturbance of Memory, SK and her sister, accompanied also by SK's son, follow the Freud brothers to Trieste and Athens, but are frequently diverted by other traces, including those of James Joyce, Jacques Derrida, Italo Svevo, and Ulysses. There are photographs and drawings of uncertain origin, and descriptions of food, trains, and family romances. The English text is followed by a Greek translation.
