Replications: Archaeology, Art History, Psychoanalysis

by Whitney Davis

The twelve interdisciplinary essays collected here explore what Whitney Davis calls "replication" in archaeology, art history, and psychoanalysis the sequential production of similar artifacts or images substitutable for one another in specific contexts of use. Davis suggests that while archaeology deals with the "physics" of replication (its material conditions and constraints), psychoanalysis deals with the "psychics" of replication (its mental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271015241
• ISBN13: 9780271015248
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.6" x 11.0"