SIGMUND FREUD THEMES
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Whereas his passion for collecting initially served as a means of presenting the mechanism of the unconscious, in his later works the actual work of the archaeologist developed into a privileged metaphor for the work of the psychoanalyst. Schooled in the methods of archaeology, Freud was already describing his approach in the "Dora" case in the manner of an excavation. |
 "Isis nursing the Horus child" Egypt, Late Period (26th. Dynasty), 664-525 BC. |
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"In face of the incompleteness of my analytic results, I had no choice but to follow the example of those discoverers whose good fortune it is to bring to the light of day after their long burial the priceless though mutilated relics of antiquity. I have restored what is missing, taking the best models known to me from the other analyses; but, like a conscientious archaeologist, I have not omitted to mention in each case where the authentic parts end and my constructions begin." |
 "Amon-Re" Egypt, probably Late Period, 716-332 BC. |
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