Annie De Muynck
ALLi Author Member
Location: Belgium
Genres: Essays, Psychology, Contemporary Fiction, Crime, Mystery, Women's Fiction, Suspense, Thriller - Psychological
Annie De Muynck has a long career as a psychologist in a guidance center in Belgium, full-time and later part-time. After university, she specialized in psychoanalytic counselling. Two decades later, she was working part-time as a freelance translator for English and American clients. She began dividing her time between her native Belgium and the U.K. She took writing and screenwriting classes in London. She was a member of London and Medway Writers and Film groups. After entering a competition for the publication of a series of three screenplays, titled SHE HAS NO CHOICE, she wrote a novel from these screenplays, titled PERILOUS LAST-MINUTE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING, published in September 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. In January 2023, she published an essay, MEMORY NEURAL OR NOT NEURAL.
Annie De Muynck's books
Genres: Essays, Psychology
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
What can we learn about forgetfulness from Freud's voyage to the Adriatic coast in 1898 and his early writings “The psychic mechanism of the forgetting”. Here Freud expresses that another kind of forgetting exists than motor aphasia. Could it be that we all kind of forgot about it? Annie De Muynck dissects using the Lacanian signifier theory and other sources. What are the implications for the school and what can we learn from it to help healthy children who underachieve at school or in pre-school maturity? Forgetfulness, misplacement of objects or other error, can reveal the unconscious. What is the significance of Freud’s changing approach to the concepts of transference and anticipatory ideas. What was described in Part One and Part Two, is a reworked version of her paper at that International Congress about Sigmund Freud’s pre-analytic writings, which was held in 12-15 May 1995 at University Ghent, Belgium in...
Genres: Crime, Thriller - Psychological
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+
CHRISSIE, a young London office manager, finds her life taking a completely new course on Christmas Eve. A last-minute Christmas shopping and she is first mugged, abducted and dumped in the countryside by a man disguised as Santa Claus and then ‘rescued’ by serial killer JOE, an otherwise cheerful but moody carpenter who keeps his son RICK and wife LOUISE virtual prisoners at a remote house.The second part of the novel, begins on Christmas day, a year later, after Chrissie could escape from the remote house of the psychopathic and murderous poisoner Joe. Now he is the grandfather of her three-month-old baby PHOEBE.Many years later in part three of the novel, Joe is released from prison and the Christmas season arrives. Chrissie, who is a London property investor is happy with her boyfriend TERRY, but is haunted by nightmares of her, now fourteen years of age, daughter Phoebe, being abducted...