Aisling Campbell – Conference Report – Report on the International Congress on Freud’s Pre-Analytic Writings, Ghent University, Belgium – 12-15 May 1995
 
THE LETTER 04 (Summer 1995) pages 148-150
 
It seems appropriate that a congress on Freud’s Pre-Analytic writings, recognised as crucial to the history of psychoanalysis, should be held in a city that is itself so eminently ‘historic’. A distant view of Ghent is dominated by the spires of St. Baaf’s Cathedral, St. Nicholas’ Church and the Belfry reaching toward Heaven. The streets are cobbled, and the older, inner part of the city is reminiscent of a Breughel painting. Each ancient building is meticulously composed of tiny bricks and slates and seems forever on the verge of toppling into its neighbouring...