Response to A.D. Mills Review of The Ancient Unconscious: Psychoanalysis and the Ancient Text

[...]on its slopes he could still observe the ancient remains of the theater of Dionysus where Sophocles' Oedipus Rex was performed in the fifth century BCE. In making room for a fusion of times as central to our psychological experience, we also discover the cultural and textual dimensions of...

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Published in:American imago 2020-12, Vol.77 (4), p.766-771
Main Author: Kenaan, Vered Lev
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antiquity
Consciousness
Dreams
Language
Memory
Modernity
Philology
Psychoanalysis
Sophocles (496?-406 BC)
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Summary:[...]on its slopes he could still observe the ancient remains of the theater of Dionysus where Sophocles' Oedipus Rex was performed in the fifth century BCE. In making room for a fusion of times as central to our psychological experience, we also discover the cultural and textual dimensions of our psychological apparatus. While antiquity does not provide organic provenance for modernity, it is nevertheless the case that despite their cultural and historical distance, the two epochs maintain a close relation through encounters between their different temporal horizons. [...]his literary insights, which connect antiquity and modernity, are not always properly understood.
ISSN:0065-860X
1085-7931
1085-7931
DOI:10.1353/aim.2020.0045