On the couch : : a repressed history of the analytic couch from Plato to Freud / / Nathan Kravis.

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, Massachusetts ;, London, England : : The MIT Press,, [2017]
2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (225 pages) :; illustrations (chiefly color)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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?