SIGMUND FREUD AND ART His Personal Collection of Antiquities

Gamwell, Lynn (editor); Wells, Richard (editor); Gay, Peter (intro.)

ISBN 10: 0810911817 / ISBN 13: 9780810911819

Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, NY, 1989

About this Item

New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Very Good/Good +. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. 4to., 192 pp., dust jacket light shelf wear, light shelf wear to edges and corners, spine faded, otherwise quite good; cover light shelf wear to edges and corners, otherwise very good; top edge of text block very lightly soiled, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SIGMUND FREUD AND ART His Personal Collection of Antiquities
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810911817
• ISBN 13: 9780810911819
• Binding: Hardcover w/DJ
• Illustrator: Black & White/Color Illus. & Photos
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good/Good +
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art-Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions

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Synopsis

Shows Freud's art collection, discusses the background of each piece, and looks at connections between art and psychoanalysis

Reviews

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.
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