Psychoanalysis And The Humanities

Written by distinguished artists and scholars with psychoanalytic training, this seminal collection of essays spans the humanities - painting, sculpture, literature, history, anthropology, and philosophy - illustrating how psychoanalytic thinking can powerfully enhance these disciplines. The essayists address a question first posed by Freud in his 1919 article, "Should Psychoanalysis Be Taught at the University?" With a resounding "Yes", they underline the intellectual enrichment to be gained from the application of the psychoanalytic method to humanistic disciplines and, conversely, the need for contemporary psychoanalysts to acquire the kind of historical and classical education taken for granted by their counterparts earlier in this century.

LAURIE ADAMS, PH.D. is Professor of Art History at John Jay College, City University of New York, and the Graduate Center, as well as a senior member of the New York Society for Psychoanalytic Training. Dr. Adams is the editor of several books and journals., JACQUES SZALUTA, PH.D. is Professor of History at the United States Merchant Marine Academy. He is the author of La Psychohistoire> in the Que sais-je Series published in France, and also has written numerous articles.

Chapter 1 Introduction, Laurie Adams; Chapter 2 Sigmund Freud's Philosophical Ego Ideals, Jacques Szaluta; Chapter 3 Cézanne: The Large Bathers II, Sidney Geist; Chapter 4 Duchamp, Freud, and Psychoanalysis, Seymour Howard; Chapter 5 Alberto Giacometti's No More Play: A Monument to Ancient Magic, Fertility Goddesses, and Universal Ambivalence Toward Women, Laurie Wilson; Chapter 6 Writing the Unconscious, Walter Kendrick; Chapter 7 Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: Bridging Science and the Humanities, Allen Johnson; Chapter 8 Psychoanalysis and History, Nellie L. Thompson;