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Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World

Contributor(s): Armstrong, Richard H (Author)

ISBN: 9780801473333

Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Pub Date: September 18, 2006

Dewey: 150.1952

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 0.85" H x 9.06" L x 6.04" W ( 1.13 lbs) 322 pages

Series: Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry

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"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...

Brief description: Richard H. Armstrong is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Houston.

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A most subtle, ingenious and sophisticated intervention into debates concerning Freud's legacy.

--Vanda Zajko "Journal of Hellenic Studies"

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