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LXIII, 2
April – June 1999
“Marcel Proust, Visitor of Psychoanalysts”
This issue of the Revue is focused on Proust and his multivolume novel, Remembrance of Things Past. With the recent appearance of a new English translation, readers might want seriously to consider rereading or making their first-time acquaintance of this work. The novel has now been newly and very readably translated in six volumes under the overall title In Search of Lost Time.1 Even with all Proust's famous digressions and meanderings, and the unfinished quality of the concluding volumes that Proust was working on right up to his death, this undeniably difficult but rich work is rewarding, and one with which psychoanalysts should familiarize themselves. Many have drawn parallels between Freud and Proust, and this volume of the Revue Française de Psychanalyse examines the ways in which Proust's psychological discoveries relate to those of Freud.2
A short summary of this complex novel is not possible. For readers unfamiliar with Proust, we can only hope the frequent allusions to the novel's scenes, episodes, and characters in this issue of the Revue are not too cryptic to follow, but rather sufficiently tantalizing to inspire interest in reading or rereading one of the