Introduction: Psychoanalysis and Latin poetry

Oliensis, Ellen

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“…Famously, Freud situated a model for this process in the ruins of ancient Rome, and there is a large and variegated literature on many aspects of this topic (e.g. Armstrong, 2005;Barker, 1996;Brunner, 2011;Jacobus, 2018;Masson, 1985;Oliensis, 2009;Phillips, 2014;Simmons, 2006;Stok, 2011;Tögel, 2002). Freud's prolonged phobia about actually visiting Rome is documented in his letters to Fliess and others, as are his efforts to locate a rationale for this avoidance variously in his relations with his father, in the classical scholarship of his father-in-law, in the rabbinical exegeses of his grandfather-in-law, in his own cultural heritage, in his unease at the oppressively anti-Semitic atmosphere of Catholic Habsburg Vienna, and so forth (Momigliano, 1969;Roudinesco, 2014).…”

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Psychoanalysis and the antinomies of an archaeologist: Andrea Carandini, the ruins of Rome, and the writing of history

McCaskie

2021

History of the Human Sciences

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Freud’s fascination with the ruins of ancient Rome was an element in the formation and development of psychology. This article concerns the intersection of psychoanalysis with archaeology and history in the study of that city. Its substantive content is an analysis of the life and career of Andrea Carandini, the best-known Roman archaeologist of the past 40 years. He has said and written much about his changing views of himself and about what he is trying to do in his approach to the recuperation of the Roman past. His scholarly publications and autobiographical testimonies are at the core of this article. After an early commitment to Marxism that ended in disenchantment and a crisis in his personal life, Carandini spent a decade undergoing psychoanalysis with the Chilean-born expatriate Ignacio Matte-Blanco. The latter gained a following as a theorist who built upon Freud’s ideas about the unconscious by producing a set of mathematically inspired concepts concerning the workings of temporality in human history in which emotional intuition took priority over the rational(izing) logic of empiricism. Much influenced by his psychoanalyst, Carandini developed a highly personal approach to the writing of archaeology and history. These writings are explored here in terms of Roman historiography, and in the wider arena of formulations of how the past is to be addressed and written about.

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Psychoanalysis and the antinomies of an archaeologist: Andrea Carandini, the ruins of Rome, and the writing of history

McCaskie

2021

History of the Human Sciences

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“…In 'Catullus' Fantastical Memories', Marguerite Johnson recalls the woman of Frank Olin Copley (1949), Patrick McGushin (1967), David Rankin (1976), Ernst A. Fredricksmeyer (1983, and the other romantic Latinists under her spell. Johnson reviews Lesbia through the lens of Memory Studies, as well as the psychoanalytical research of Micaela Janan's Lacanian readings (1994), expanded and made Freudian by Ellen Oliensis (2009). Thus, Lesbia regains her status as the centre of Catullus' universealong with his brotheronce again in our collection.…”

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O'Hearn²

2021

Antichthon

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The symposium marked fourteen years since the first Catullus gathering at Newcastle, which resulted in the first thematic issue of Antichthon, 'Catullus in Contemporary Perspective' in 2006. This inaugural thematic issue of Antichthon marked the fortieth anniversary of the foundation of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies and the publication of its journal. It is especially poignant that many of the original contributors and audience members returned in 2018, and their papers appear in this second thematic volume, 'Catullus in the 21st Century.'When one compares the content of this thematic issue with its 2006 predecessor, certain topics remain constant, while new ways of engaging with Catullus also emerge. The new millennium has seen the publication of several key collections on Catullan scholarship, including Julia Haig Gaisser's Catullus (2007) for the Oxford Readings in Classical Studies series, with twenty-five chapters on the poet from the second-half of the twentieth century. Serious students of Catullus would be familiar with most if not all of the readings in Gaisser's volume. The same year saw the publication of Marilyn B. Skinner's edited collection of new work on Catullus -A Companion to Catullusin the Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World series. Skinner's extensive collation of commissioned chapters captured the innovations as well as the traditions in Catullan scholarship and complemented Gaisser's retrospective volume. 1 The contributions in this special issue of Antichthon reflect the content of both eminent volumes: the scholarship and traditions of Gaisser's collection, and the recent developments in the field of Skinner's volume. Twenty-first-century monographs are also in evidence in the articles herein, be they in the extension of ideas or more robust engagement with them.

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“…Dissecting poem 68 in turn dissects its ‘textual unconsciousness’, cauterising the intensity of its written trauma and its masterful achievement of immersive reception in which the reader enters Catullus’ ‘timeless zone where wounds never heal’ (Oliensis 2009: 28). Unlike Oliensis, Janan (1994: 114) argues for a unitarian reading of the poem, partly because a ‘fragmented narrative within a unified text’ fits her Lacanian methodology.…”

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Catullus’ Fantastical Memories – Poem 68 and Writing Trauma

Johnson

2021

Antichthon

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In the many evocations of memory in the Catullan corpus, fantasy plays a significant, albeit discrete role. Fantasy embellishes memories in Catullus’ poems, not necessarily making them bearable but enabling them to be understood, in part. I argue that in poem 68 there are two different approaches to fantastical memories: the intense and vivid memories of his brother's death, and the memories of Lesbia that move both towards, and away from, overt fantasy. In this sense, and in the context of poem 68, fantasy communicates the memory of trauma in a way that includes vivid, hyperbolic, symbolic and metaphoric modes of expression. In the case of the fantasy embedded in the memory of Lesbia, it also entails wish fulfilment.

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Introduction: Psychoanalysis and Latin poetry

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Psychoanalysis and the antinomies of an archaeologist: Andrea Carandini, the ruins of Rome, and the writing of history

Psychoanalysis and the antinomies of an archaeologist: Andrea Carandini, the ruins of Rome, and the writing of history

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Catullus’ Fantastical Memories – Poem 68 and Writing Trauma

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