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On the Couch : A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (225 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262341639
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: On the CouchDDC classification:
  • 616.8917
LOC classification:
  • RC506 .K73 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Why Is the Couch Used in Psychoanalysis -- 2 Symposion and Convivium -- 3 The Evolution of the Couch and the Rise of the Sofa -- 4 Comfort, Recumbence, Interiority, and Transgression -- 5 The Medicalization of Comfort -- 6 Recumbent Posture in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry and Therapeutics -- 7 Freud's Couch -- 8 The Analyst's Moral Interior -- 9 Whence? Whither? Whether? -- Notes -- References -- Illustration Credits -- Index.
Summary: How the couch became an icon of self-knowledge and self-reflection as well as a site for pleasure, transgression, and healing.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Why Is the Couch Used in Psychoanalysis -- 2 Symposion and Convivium -- 3 The Evolution of the Couch and the Rise of the Sofa -- 4 Comfort, Recumbence, Interiority, and Transgression -- 5 The Medicalization of Comfort -- 6 Recumbent Posture in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry and Therapeutics -- 7 Freud's Couch -- 8 The Analyst's Moral Interior -- 9 Whence? Whither? Whether? -- Notes -- References -- Illustration Credits -- Index.

How the couch became an icon of self-knowledge and self-reflection as well as a site for pleasure, transgression, and healing.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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