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Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Photography, and the History of Art

Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Photography, and the History of Art 434 Book Reviews / Nuncius 26 (2011) 391–458 Mary Bergstein, Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Photography, and the History of Art (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2010), 335 pp., ISBN 978-0-8014-4819-5. The volume deals with the fascinating issue of Freud’s visual imagination, examin- ing fijirst of all the visual resources in Freud’s library. The core of this interdisciplin- ary research illustrates the signifijicant role that photography has played in the formation of Freudian psychoanalysis, referring specifijically to documentary pho- tography of various kind, of art and archaeology, but also of medicine, psychiatry, anthropology and ethnography. Therefore here photos of classical and Renaissance art appear next to ethnographical photos, as those of bearded Jews; photos of archaeological sites and landscapes in Greece, Italy or Egypt appear next to photo- graphic portraits of Freud and his family; medical photos by Duchenne de Boulogne and his successors at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, Paul Regnard and Albert Londe, appear next to photos of Egyptian mummies. Thanks to a rich iconographic apparatus, the author, the art historian Mary Bergstein, reconstructs not only the visual culture of the psychoanalysis father, but also the visual culture of the entire early twentieth century Europe, profoundly http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nuncius (successor of "Annali") Brill

Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Photography, and the History of Art

Canadelli, Elena
Nuncius (successor of "Annali") , Volume 26 (2): 434 – Jan 1, 2011
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© 2011 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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434 Book Reviews / Nuncius 26 (2011) 391–458 Mary Bergstein, Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Photography, and the History of Art (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2010), 335 pp., ISBN 978-0-8014-4819-5. The volume deals with the fascinating issue of Freud’s visual imagination, examin- ing fijirst of all the visual resources in Freud’s library. The core of this interdisciplin- ary research illustrates the signifijicant role that photography has played in the formation of Freudian psychoanalysis, referring specifijically to documentary pho- tography of various kind, of art and archaeology, but also of medicine, psychiatry, anthropology and ethnography. Therefore here photos of classical and Renaissance art appear next to ethnographical photos, as those of bearded Jews; photos of archaeological sites and landscapes in Greece, Italy or Egypt appear next to photo- graphic portraits of Freud and his family; medical photos by Duchenne de Boulogne and his successors at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, Paul Regnard and Albert Londe, appear next to photos of Egyptian mummies. Thanks to a rich iconographic apparatus, the author, the art historian Mary Bergstein, reconstructs not only the visual culture of the psychoanalysis father, but also the visual culture of the entire early twentieth century Europe, profoundly

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