Freud, Said, and the ancient and classical worlds
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| Field | Value | |
| Title | Freud, Said, and the ancient and classical worlds Freud, Said en die antieke en klassieke wêreld | |
| Creator | Field, Roger M. | |
| Description | Sigmund Freud’s reading of the classics and Greek mythology is well documented. By contrast, Edward Said’s reading of Freud has received little attention. This article considers three main issues: how Said and Freud thought about and used ancient and classical Greek literature; the ways in which Said has read Freud reading the ancient and classical worlds; the significance of ambivalence and analogy for these readings. The article concludes that there is a necessary relationship between analogy and ambivalence. Primarily chronological, the reading also draws on Freud’s notions of latency and repression to track how Said’s approaches to ambivalence and analogy changed. In the case of Said, it is possible to attribute some of these changes to the impact of Bernal’s Black Athena, which encouraged him to review the notions of ancient Greek society which underpin Orientalism, and to Bernal’s narrative inspiration, Kuhn’s The structure of scientific revolutions. Latency and repression make it possible to posit prehistories. Therefore, the article also examines the ways in which Freud and Said have been obliged to assume continuities between prehistory and history, and between individual and mass psychology. Sigmund Freud se lesing van die klassieke endie Griekse mitologie is goed gedokumenteer. In teenstelling daarmee, het Edward Said selesing van Freud min aandag ontvang. Hierdie artikel stel drie hoofkwessies aan die orde: WatSaid en Freud oor antieke en klassieke Griekse literatuur gedink het en hoe hulle dit gebruikhet; die wyse waarop Said Freud se lesing van die antieke en klassieke wêreld gelees het; diebetekenis van ambivalensie en analogie vir hierdie lesings. Die gevolgtrekking van die artikelis dat daar ʼn noodwendige verwantskap tussen analogie en ambivalensie bestaan. Hoofsaaklikchronologies aangepak, steun hierdie lesing ook op Freud se opvattings oor latentheid enrepressie om aan te toon hoe Said se opvattings oor ambivalensie en analogie verander het. Indie geval van Said, is dit moontlik om sommige van die veranderings toe te skryf aan dieimpak van Bernal se Black Athena, wat hom aangemoedig het om die opvattings van dieantieke Griekse samelewing onderliggend aan Oriëntalisme te heroorweeg, en aan die narratiefwat Bernal geïnspireer het, naamlik Kuhn se The structure of scientific revolutions. Latentheid enrepressie maak dit moontlik om voorgeskiedenisse postuleer. Die artikel ondersoek derhalweook die wyse waarop Freud en Said verplig was om kontinuïteite tussen voorgeskiedenis engeskiedenis, en tussen individuele en massapsigologie te veronderstel. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2016-08-22 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/lit.v37i1.1234 | |
| Source | Literator; Vol 37, No 1 (2016); 8 pages Literator; Vol 37, No 1 (2016); 8 pages 2219-8237 0258-2279 | |
| Language | eng | |
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