Sigmund Freud and Art

Zu diesem Band

Freud was a passionate collector of antiquities. Egyptian gods, Mesopotamian cylinder seals, Greek and Roman statues, Near Eastern and Chinese figurines lined his consulting room. Published in association with the Freud Museum of London and serving as companion to an exhibit touring the U.S., this intriguing, well-illustrated study probes Freud's use of archeological artifacts as metaphors for the psychoanalyst's excavation of the psyche. Although Gay (Freud: A Life for Our Time) cautions in his introduction that "Sometimes a statue is just a statue," five essays by various scholars do a good job of exposing the links between Freud's ancient relics, his response to his father's death, conflicted feelings over his Jewish identity, and his desire to ground psychoanalysis on a solid scientific bedrock.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

• Richard Wells
  Preface
• Peter Gay
  Introduction
• Lynn Gamwell
  The Origins of Freud's Antiquities Collection

Selections from the Collection

• Donald Kuspit: A Mighty Metaphor
  The Analogy of Archaeology and Psychoanalysis
• Ellen Handler Spitz
  Psychoanalysis and the Legacies of Antiquity
• Martin s. Bergnmann
  Science and Art in Freud's Life and Work
• Wendy Botting J. Keith Davies
  Freud's Library and an Appendix of Texts Related to Antiquities

Lieferbarkeitshinweis

Im Fachantiquariat der SFB ist dieser reich bebilderte Kunstband in wenigen jeweils gut bis sehr gut erhaltenen antiquarischen Exemplaren mit entsprechend nur geringfügigen Gebrauchsspuren und gfs. kleineren Läsuren am Schutzumschlag verfügbar; beim Verlag vergriffen.