BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk//
X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Freud\, Classics and Cryptomnesia - Rodrigo Vivas Pinto (Cambridge
 \, Classics)
DTSTART:20130207T171500Z
DTEND:20130207T183000Z
UID:TALK43294@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Helen Roche
DESCRIPTION:Sigmund Freud's proverbial obsession with the Classics persist
 ed even in his late years. At the age of 81\, the Viennese neurologist rea
 lised that one of the chief tenets of psychoanalysis was not an original i
 dea\, but rather an ancient one. Freud\, in an essay entitled 'Analysis Te
 rminable and Interminable' (1937)\, recognised that the credit for his dua
 l instinct theory - that is\, the perennial struggle between what he calle
 d the death instinct (Todestrieb) and the life instinct (Lebenstrieb) - re
 ally belonged to Empedocles of Acragas\, a Presocratic philosopher from th
 e fifth century B.C.\nMy presentation will look at ways in which Freud's p
 remises do and do not coincide with those of Empedocles\, and the extent t
 o which such an unconscious influence of classical sources (what Freud con
 sidered a case of cryptomnesia\, i.e. hidden memory)\, within the historic
 al-theoretical framework of psychoanalysis\, might offer a more complex mo
 del for reception itself.
LOCATION:Classics Faculty\, Room G.21
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR