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

Author/creator Kravis, Nathan
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2017]
Descriptionxvi, 204 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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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?
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 183-188) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016052900
ISBN9780262036610 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0262036614 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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