10.4225/03/592383266d63c Kevin Brown Kevin Brown Samuel Beckett and the Presence of Memory Monash University 2017 Samuel Beckett Lois Oppenheim Wilfred Bion Waiting for Godot Endgame Krapp’s Last Tape Happy Days Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies Literary Studies not elsewhere classified 2017-05-23 00:32:30 Journal contribution https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/Samuel_Beckett_and_the_Presence_of_Memory/5027753 Lois Oppenheim approaches the work of Samuel Beckett from a psychoanalytic point of view in the article “A Preoccupation With Object Representation: The Beckett–Bion Case Revisited.” Oppenheim asks, “why would an author endowed with as rich a visual memory as Beckett’s place the preoccupation with memory, the anxiety of remembrance, at the forefront of his art? . . . To what extent, more precisely, might there be a disturbance in object representation deriving from pathology in the writer’s own inner representational world?” In order to answer this question, Oppenheim brings Wilfred Bion, Beckett’s psychiatrist, to the forefront.