- The best introduction to the sometimes forbidding world of Lacan’s thought is
Malcolm Bowie, Lacan, London: Fontana Press (Fontana Modern Masters), 1991. - Harold Nicolson, Benjamin Constant, London: Constable, 1949, p. 5.
- On this and Freud’s Irma dream, see James Hopkins’s chapter ‘The interpretation of
dreams’ in The Cambridge Companion to Freud, ed. Jerome Neu, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1991, esp. pp. 101 ff. - See Constant, Œuvres, p. 1479.
- Constant, Œuvres, pp. 295–6.
- See Dennis Wood, ‘Constant and the case of Ann Hurle’, French Studies Bulletin, 5
(Winter 1982/3), pp. 6–8. - Quoted in the Introduction to Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, ed. Trevor
Blount, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books (The Penguin English Library), 1966, pp.
18–19. - Rudler, Jeunesse, p. 37.
- Ibid.: ‘L’éducation de son fils lui donna beaucoup de peine; il se ressentit du
malheur d’avoir perdu sa mère.’ The ‘il’ appears to refer to Juste. - Ian D. Suttie’s usefully provocative critique of Freudian theory The Origins of Love
and Hate, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1935, pp. 80 ff. - Constant in a letter to his aunt Anne de Nassau of 7 July 1795, quoted in Rudler,
Jeunesse, p. 61, note 1. - Adolphe, ed. Paul Delbouille, pp. 110 and 276.
- Once again Rosalie de Constant in her valuable Cahiers verts, quoted in Rudler,
Jeunesse, p. 41. - Ian D.Suttie, op. cit., p. 89.
- John Bowlby, op. cit., p. 304.
- Ma Vie, ed. C.P.Courtney, pp. 24–6.
- Charrière, Œuvres, III, p. 31.
- Ma Vie, ed. C.P.Courtney, p. 62.
- John Bowlby, op. cit., p. 304.
- The Letters of John Keats, ed. Maurice Buxton Forman, London: Oxford University
Press, 1947, p. 72, letter of 21 December 1817 to George and Thomas Keats. - See John Bowlby, op. cit., especially chapter 21, ‘Disordered variants and some
conditions contributing’, pp. 350–80. - John Bowlby, op. cit., especially pp. 28–9, 170–2, 202–6, 218–19, 343–6, 370–6.
- Han Verhoeff, ‘Adolphe’ et Constant: une étude psychocritique, Paris: Klincksieck,
1976. - See Han Verhoeff, op. cit., p. 84, note 10.
- Constant, Œuvres, p. 296.
- Constant, Œuvres, p. 495.
- One of Constant’s favourite images which occurs in his letters several times was
drawn from the Italian poet Ariosto (1474–1533): that of the knight who is so busy
fighting that he does not notice that he has already been killed. - Han Verhoeff, op. cit., p. 104.
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