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Bryn Mawr Classical Review 95.06.08

        John Elsner and Roger Cardinal (edd.), The
        Cultures of Collecting. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
        University Press, 1994. Pp. viii + 312; ills. $39.95
        (hb). $18.95 (pb). ISBN 0-674-17992-7 (hb). ISBN
        0-674-17993-5 (pb). 


        Reviewed by A.A. Donohue, Bryn Mawr College.



	John Forrester's discussion of Freud and collecting touches
on many aspects of the correspondences between analysis and
archaeology, a relationship made famous by Freud's fantasy
of Rome as "a psychical entity". Most surprising is the
poignance of Freud's love for his objects: "Every piece or
item in each of his collections thus represented a paternal
figure standing guard over the mysterious feminine. And
every
successful act of analysis of them represented an Oedipal
victory" (251). The essay ends, touchingly, with Freud's
recollection of a  childhood nightmare involving bird-headed
people, juxtaposed
with an illustration of his falcon-headed Horus figurine,
which is a fake. 


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