ABSTRACT
It is my hope that the previous case studies, for all their specificity, reveal that while our cultural climate differs substantially from nineteenth century Europe, whence Freud set us on this course of psychoanalysis, when we listen closely, just as he did, to the words of those who undertake talk therapy because they are suffering, we find the same existential dilemmas that confronted his patients. We hear deep-rooted questions about how to love, work, and grapple with the inevitability of loss, lack, and ultimately death.
