A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World

by Richard H. Armstrong

Book Overview

"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 psychoanalysis itself, as Freud conceived it?"--from Chapter 1As he developed his striking new science of the mind, Sigmund Freud had frequent recourse to ancient culture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801473330
• ISBN13: 9780801473333
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher