Psychoanalysis And The Humanities

First published in 1996. 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.