How Long to Read A Compulsion for Antiquity

How Long Does it Take to Read A Compulsion for Antiquity?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 24 minutes to read A Compulsion for Antiquity by Richard H. Armstrong

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

"If psychoanalysis is the return of repressed antiquity, distorted to be sure by modern desire, yet still bearing the telltale traces of the ancient archive, then would not our growing distance from the archive of antiquity also imply that we are in the process of losing our grip on psychoanalysis itself, as Freud conceived it?"—from Chapter 1 As he developed his striking new science of the mind, Sigmund Freud had frequent recourse to ancient culture and the historical disciplines that draw on it. A Compulsion for Antiquity fully explores how Freud appropriated figures and themes from classical mythology and how the theory and practice of psychoanalysis paralleled contemporary developments in historiography, archaeology, philology, and the history of religions. Drawing extensively from Freud's private correspondence and other notes and documents, Richard H. Armstrong touches on Freud's indebtedness to Sophocles and the Oedipus complex, his interest in Moses and the Jewish religion, and his travels to Athens and Rome. Armstrong shows how Freud turned to the ancient world to deal with the challenges posed by his own scientific ambitions and how these lessons influenced the way he handled psychic "evidence" and formulated the universal application of what were initially isolated clinical truths. Freud's narrative reconstructions of the past also related to his sense of Jewishness, linking the historical trajectory of psychoanalysis with contemporary central European Jewish culture. Ranging across the breadth of Freud's work, A Compulsion for Antiquity offers fresh insights into the roots of psychoanalysis and fin de siècle European culture, and makes an important contribution to the burgeoning discipline of mnemohistory.

How long is A Compulsion for Antiquity?

A Compulsion for Antiquity by Richard H. Armstrong is 322 pages long, and a total of 81,144 words.

This makes it 109% the length of the average book. It also has 99% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Compulsion for Antiquity Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 23 minutes to read A Compulsion for Antiquity aloud.

What Reading Level is A Compulsion for Antiquity?

A Compulsion for Antiquity is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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