The sound of the unconscious: psychoanalysis as music: by Ludovica Grassi, New York, Routledge, 2021, 141pp., £120 (hardback), £29.99 (paperback), £26.99 (ebook), ISBN 978-0-367-64553-3.

(Grassi p 6) There are various approaches to writing about music and psychoanalysis. It reminded me of the concept of "Remembering, Repeating and Working through" (Freud [1]) Overall I think Grassi is offering a wonderfully stimulating contribution to the literature on music and psychoanalysis but I must confess it is not an easy read. Ludovica Grassi's book The Voice of the Unconscious Psychoanalysis as Music 2021 is a welcome addition to a fairly limited but growing repertoire of books on psychoanalysis and music. In her book, Ludovica Grassi wishes to go 'beyond the application of psychoanalysis to music in order to achieve a musically informed psychoanalysis'. [Extracted from the article]