A Compulsion for Antiquity : : Freud and the Ancient World /

A Compulsion for Antiquity : : Freud and the Ancient World / / Richard H. Armstrong.

"If psychoanalysis is the return of repressed antiquity, distorted to be sure by modern desire, yet still bearing the telltale traces of the ancient archive, then would not our growing distance from the archive of antiquity also imply that we are in the process of losing our grip on psychoanaly...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Armstrong, Richard H.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2006
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry
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Physical Description:1 online resource (322 p.) :; 2 line drawings, 2 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction. Disturbing Acropolis
  • Part I. Collision and Collusion in the Archives
  • 1. Compulsive Situation
  • 2. Compulsive Anatomy
  • 3. The Theban Paradigm
  • 4. Leonardo's Gay Science
  • 5. The Cunning of Tradition
  • 6. Conquest and Interpretation
  • Part II. Memory and History
  • 7. Memory, Biography, History, Myth
  • 8. Critique and Divination
  • 9. The Archaeology of Freedom
  • 10. Uncanny Understanding and a Grave Philosophy
  • CONCLUSION
  • 11. The Myth of Ur
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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