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Article: Freud: Conflict and Culture - Essays on His Life, Work, and Legacy.(Review)
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- May 1, 1999
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edited by Michael S. Roth New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998 274 pp./$26.00 (hb)
"Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture" is a comfortable visual experience. Its curatorial strategy and layout are straightforward and follow a linear chronology. Yet the questions the exhibition raises about how we now view Freudian psychoanalysis are far from simple. On its surface, "Conflict and Culture" showcases an overwhelming compendium of artifacts, predominantly gleaned from the Library of Congress. There are more than 170 vintage photographs, daguerreotypes, prints, films, manuscripts and notes scrawled in Freud's manic German.(1) Section one, "Formative Years," is familiar ...
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Article: Analyzing influence of Sigmund Freud: Library of Congress' ...
The Washington Times;
September 22, 1998 ;
700+ words
... ... the planning, "Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture" will open Oct. 15 in ... emphasis in the show is on Freud's influence on popular culture, Mr. Roth used scenes ... and films to illustrate Freud's concept of repression ...
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