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Freud's Blind Spot

23 Original Essays on Cherished, Estranged, Lost, Hurtful, Hopeful, Complicated Siblings

About The Book

Relationships with our siblings stretch, as an old saying has it, all the way from the cradle to the grave. Few bonds in life are as significant, as formative, as lasting, and as frequently overlooked as those we share with our brothers and sisters.

In this stellar, first-of-its-kind anthology, contemporary writers explore the rich and varied landscape of sibling experience, illuminating the essential, occasionally wonderful, often difficult ways our brothers and sisters—or lack thereof—shape us. There are those who love and cherish their siblings, those who abhor and avoid them, and everyone in between.

Contributors include the following:

Steve Almond, Daphne Beal, Nat Bennett, Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, James Cañón, T Cooper, Lauren Grodstein, Nellie Hermann, Joanna Hershon, Nalini Jones, Etgar Keret, Victor LaValle, Vestal McIntyre, Jay Baron Nicorvo, Mary Norris, Eric Orner, Peter Orner, Angela Pneuman, Margo Rabb, Edward Schwarzschild, Robert Anthony Siegel, Faith Soloway, Jill Soloway, and Rebecca Wolff

About The Author

Photograph by Tanja Hollander

Elisa Albert is the author of After BirthThe Book of DahliaHow This Night Is Different, and editor of the anthology Freud’s Blind Spot. Her stories and essays have appeared in TimeThe GuardianThe New York Timesn+1Bennington ReviewTin HouseMichigan Quarterly ReviewThe Literary Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in upstate New York. 

Product Details

  • Publisher: Free Press (November 16, 2010)
  • Length: 288 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781439154724

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"An introspective, provocative collection of firsthand accounts of siblinghood’s joys and pains." —Kirkus Reviews

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