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Auteur(s) : Kravis, Nathan
Titre(s) : On the couch [Texte imprimé] : a repressed history of the analytic couch from Plato to Freud / Nathan Kravis
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : The MIT press, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVI-204 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Why is the couch used in psychoanalysis? ; Symposion and convivium ; The evolution
of the couch and the rise of the sofa ; Comfort, recumbence, interiority, and transgression
; The medicalization of comfort ; Recumbent posture in 19th-century psychiatry and
therapeutics ; Freud's couch ; The analyst's moral interior ; Whence? whither?
whether?
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [183]-188. Index
The peculiar arrangement of the psychoanalyst's office for an analytic session seems
inexplicable. The analyst sits in a chair out of sight while the patient lies on a
couch facing away. It has been this way since Freud, although, as Nathan Kravis points
out in On the Couch, this practice is grounded more in the cultural history of reclining
posture than in empirical research. Kravis, himself a practicing psychoanalyst, shows
that the tradition of recumbent speech wasn't dreamed up by Freud but can be traced
back to ancient Greece, where guests reclined on couches at the symposion (a gathering
for upper-class males to discuss philosophy and drink wine), and to the Roman convivium
(a banquet at which men and women reclined together). From bed to bench to settee
to chaise-longue to sofa: Kravis tells how the couch became an icon of self-knowledge
and self-reflection as well as a site for pleasure, privacy, transgression, and healing
Sujet(s) : Psychanalyse -- Histoire
Relations psychothérapeute-patient
Patients -- Positionnement
Architecture intérieure -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
616.89 (23e éd.) = Troubles mentaux (psychiatrie)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780262036610. - ISBN 0262036614 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb453435505
Notice n° :
FRBNF45343550
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