Coming Too Late: Reflections on Freud and Belatedness

Rethinks the significance of the son's relationship to his father for Freud's psychoanalytic theory.

Aiming to reconceptualize some of Freud's earliest psychoanalytic thinking, Andrew Barnaby's Coming Too Late argues that what Freud understood as the fundamental psychoanalytic relationship-a son's ambivalent relationship to his father-is governed not by the sexual rivalry of the Oedipus complex but by the existential predicament of belatedness. Analyzing the rhetorical tensions of Freud's wr...