Research Catalog

Title

Archaeology of the unconscious : Italian perspectives / edited by Alessandra Aloisi and Fabio Camilletti.

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Aloisi, Alessandra
• Camilletti, Fabio

Series Statement

Warwick series in the humanities

Uniform Title

Warwick series in the humanities.

Subject

• Italian literature > History and criticism
• Psychoanalysis and literature > Italy
• Subconsciousness in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 19-10315

ISBN

• 9780367263737
• 0367263734
• 9780429293047 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000113556 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000104035 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000108798 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019008080

OCLC

1087854865

Title

Archaeology of the unconscious : Italian perspectives / edited by Alessandra Aloisi and Fabio Camilletti.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Description

ix, 286 pages ; 24 cm.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Warwick series in the humanities

Warwick series in the humanities.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary

"In reconstructing the birth and development of the notion of 'unconscious', historians of ideas have heavily relied on the Freudian concept of Unbewussten, retroactively projecting the psychoanalytic unconscious over a constellation of diverse cultural experiences taking place in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries between France and Germany. Archaeology of the Unconscious aims to challenge this perspective by adopting an unusual and thought-provoking viewpoint as the one offered by the Italian case from the 1770s to the immediate aftermath of WWI, when Italo Svevo's La coscienza di Zeno provides Italy with the first example of a 'psychoanalytic novel'. Italy's vibrant culture of the long nineteenth century, characterised by the sedimentation, circulation, intersection, and synergy of different cultural, philosophical, and literary traditions, proves itself to be a privileged object of inquiry for an archaeological study of the unconscious; a study whose object is not the alleged 'origin' of a pre-made theoretical construct, but rather the stratifications by which that specific construct was assembled. In line with Michel Foucault's Archéologie du savoir (1969), this volume will analyze the formation and the circulation, across different authors and texts, of a network of ideas and discourses on interconnected themes, including dreams, memory, recollection, desire, imagination, fantasy, madness, creativity, inspiration, magnetism, and somnambulism. Alongside questioning pre-given narratives of the 'history of the unconscious', this book will employ the Italian 'difference' as a powerful perspective from whence to address the undeveloped potentialities of the pre-Freudian unconscious, beyond uniquely psychoanalytical viewpoints." -- Provided by publisher.

Added Author

Aloisi, Alessandra, editor.

Camilletti, Fabio, editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781000113556

Research Call Number

JFE 19-10315