History and Theory:
            <i>Moses and Monotheism</i>
            and the Historiography of the Repressed

Leonard, Miriam

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“…The exchange concerning the statue of Athene in Freud's side-room is significant because it brings together the questions of archaeology and translation-especially as regards the fact that the antiquities in Freud's consulting room are often considered an 'objective correlative for the archaeological metaphor' 127 for psychoanalysis. In Freud's earliest use of the archaeological metaphor, 128 the excavations of an 'explorer' reveal the complex interplay of positivism and constructivism that characterises Freud's engagement with the past: 129 If his work is crowned with success, the discoveries are self-explanatory: the … fragments of columns can be filled out into a temple; the numerous inscriptions, which, by good luck, may be bilingual, reveal an alphabet and a language, and, when they have been deciphered and translated, yield undreamedof information about the events of the remote past, to commemorate which the monuments were built. Saxa loquuntur!…”

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Spectres of Euripides: Time, Translation and Modernism in H.D.’s Euripides

Strawson

2021

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The modernist period was one of intense engagement with antiquity. It was also a period concerned with radical ideas about time put forward by Henri Bergson and Albert Einstein that questioned traditional understandings of the relationship between past and present. This article considers these two aspects of the modernist period through H.D.’s translations of Euripides: it argues that H.D.’s equivocal position in literary modernism and the imagist movement (as demonstrated by her translations from Hippolytus), her prosodic experimentation with Greek verse forms in her translations from Hecuba and Iphigenia at Aulis and finally her emphasis on temporal themes in her Freud-inspired translation of Ion can be all read in such a way to cast new light on the complex temporalities of the translation of classical texts and the modernist reception of the classics.

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Spectres of Euripides: Time, Translation and Modernism in H.D.’s Euripides

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2021

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“…Both the biographical example and his comment about the analogy to myths and legends appear in the 1907 revisions. 11 See Gay (1985) and my own discussions in Leonard (2008) and Leonard (2012).…”

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Freud and the biography of antiquity

Leonard¹

2016

Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity

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Freud and the Biography of Antiquity'There is', Sigmund Freud tells us in his psychobiography of the great artist, 'only one place in his scientific notebooks where Leonardo [da Vinci] inserts a piece of information about his childhood'. 1 In the course of a discussion of the mechanics of the flight of vultures, Leonardo interjects this anecdote:It seems that I was always destined to be so deeply concerned with vultures; for I recall as one of my very earliest memories that while I was in my cradle a vulture came down to me, and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me many times with its tail against my lips. 2This single and fleeting vista onto the childhood of Leonardo acts for Freud as a key to unlocking what Ernst Kris and Otto Kurz will call 'the riddle of the artist'. 3 As Freud writes at the start of his biographical sketch: 'Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was admired even by his contemporaries as one of the greatest men of the Italian renaissance; yet in their time he had already begun to seem an enigma, just as he does to us to-day'. 4 It is hardly surprising that Freud, whose biography of the artist is billed from its opening phrase as piece of 'psychiatric research', should be concerned with Leonardo's childhood. But in this case it is not merely Freud but Leonardo himself who sees this childhood memory as key to understanding the obsessions of the mature artist: 'it seems I always destined to be so deeply concerned…'. The anecdote related to Leonardo's creative awakening does not arise from a retrospective account of his life written by one of his admirers but instead forms part of his own autobiographical musings.Childhood, as Kris and Kurz observe, forms a privileged site in the construction of the artist's biography. In analysing a succession of ancient and early modern stories recounted in the biographical traditions of artists, Kris and Kurz discern a universal pattern which ultimately gives rise to the 'heroization of the artist'. In a

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History and Theory: Moses and Monotheism and the Historiography of the Repressed

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Spectres of Euripides: Time, Translation and Modernism in H.D.’s Euripides

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Freud and the biography of antiquity

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