Mirrors of memory : Freud, photography, and the history of art / Mary Bergstein.

Main entry:

Bergstein, Mary.

Title & Author:

Mirrors of memory : Freud, photography, and the history of art / Mary Bergstein.

Publication:

Ithaca [N.Y.] ; London : Cornell University Press, 2010.

Description:

v, 335 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Series:

Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : reading Freud's visual imagination -- Memories and dreams -- Freud's Michelangelo : the sculptural meditations of a Hellenized Jew -- Delusions and dreams : Freud's "Gradiva" and the photography of ancient sculpture -- Uncanny Egypt and Roman fever : Freud's ethnographic quest -- Sympathetic magic and conclusion.

Summary:

Photographs shaped the view of the world in turn-of-the-century central Europe, bringing images of everything from natural and cultural history to masterpieces of Greek sculpture. Sigmund Freud's library was filled with individual photographs and images in books. According to the author, these photographs profoundly shaped Freud's thinking in ways that were no less important because they may have been involuntary and unconscious. She argues that studying the man and his photographs uncovers a key to the origins of psychoanalysis. In Freud's era, photographs were viewed as transparent windows revealing objective truth but at the same time were highly subjective, resembling a kind of dream-memory. Thus, a photo of a ruined temple both depicted the particular place and conveyed a sense of loss, oblivion, of time passing and past, and provided entry into the language of the psychoanalytic project. The author seeks to understand how various kinds of photographs --of sculptures; archaeological sites in Greece, Rome, and Egypt; medical conditions; ethnographic scenes--fed into Freud's thinking as he elaborated the concepts of psychoanalysis.

ISBN:

9780801448195 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0801448190

Subject:

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
Psychoanalysis and art.
Art and photography.
Photography Psychological aspects.
Memory Psychological aspects.
Memory.
Psychoanalytic interpretation.
Freudian Theory history
History, 20th Century
Medicine in the Arts
Photography history
Psychoanalytic Interpretation
Psychanalyse et art.
Art et photographie.
Photographie Aspect psychologique.
Médecine Histoire 20e siècle.
Mémoire.
Interprétation psychanalytique.
memory (psychological concept)
Psychology.
Psykoanalys och konst.
Fotokonst teori, filosofi.
Minnet.

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Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry *7

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Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry.

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Location: Library main 277880
Call No.: BIB 212983
Status: Available

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