Impossible Histories annotations on Freud

These are annotations for the sixth chapter of the book Impossible Histories. I’m not saying you need to keep a copy of IH open next to you as you read, but it might make some things clearer?

p. 90
•epigraph: The original epigraph was to be:

He looked on naked nature unashamed,
And saw the Sphinx, now bestial, now divine.
§James Russel Lowell, inscription for a memorial bust of Fielding.

•Martin Amis once remarked: This chapter originally had a long, discursive opening, which I was persuaded to cut. P...