This volume's title is an homage to Freud's seminal work, "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life," published in 1901. In these poems Brakel brings to bear her psychoanalytic and philosophical background, as well as her senses of pathos and humor. This book contains poetic glimpses into family life, the mind and the body, loss and solidarity, humans and animals. The first section, Relationships, explores father-daughter interactions, extended...