LEADER 03496nam 2200493 450 001 9910449915703321 005 20180228152710.0 010 $a0-262-34163-8 035 $a(CKB)5280000000207161 035 $a(OCoLC)1062578987 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1062578987 035 $a(MaCbMITP)11004 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5891096 035 $a(EXLCZ)995280000000207161 100 $a20161117h20172017 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||unuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOn the couch $ea repressed history of the analytic couch from Plato to Freud /$fNathan Kravis 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts ;$aLondon, England :$cThe MIT Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (224 pages) 311 $a0-262-03661-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWhy 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? 330 $aHow the couch became an icon of self-knowledge and self-reflection as well as a site for pleasure, transgression, and healing. The peculiar arrangement of the psychoanalyst's office for an analytic session seems inexplicable. The analyst sits in a chair out of sight while the patient lies on a couch facing away. It has been this way since Freud, although, as Nathan Kravis points out in On the Couch , this practice is grounded more in the cultural history of reclining posture than in empirical research. Kravis, himself a practicing psychoanalyst, shows that the tradition of recumbent speech wasn't dreamed up by Freud but can be traced back to ancient Greece, where guests reclined on couches at the symposion (a gathering for upper-class males to discuss philosophy and drink wine), and to the Roman convivium (a banquet at which men and women reclined together). From bed to bench to settee to chaise-longue to sofa: Kravis tells how the couch became an icon of self-knowledge and self-reflection as well as a site for pleasure, privacy, transgression, and healing. Kravis draws on sources that range from ancient funerary monuments to furniture history to early photography, as well as histories of medicine, fashion, and interior decoration, and he deploys an astonishing array of images -- of paintings, monuments, sculpture, photographs, illustrations, New Yorker cartoons, and advertisements. Kravis deftly shows that, despite the ambivalence of today's psychoanalysts -- some of whom regard it as "infantilizing" -- the couch continues to be the emblem of a narrative of self-discovery. Recumbent speech represents the affirmation in the presence of another of having a mind of one's own. 606 $aPsychoanalysis$xHistory 606 $aPsychotherapist and patient 606 $aFurniture$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPsychoanalysis$xHistory. 615 0$aPsychotherapist and patient. 615 0$aFurniture$xHistory. 676 $a616.89/17 700 $aKravis$b Nathan$0942914 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910449915703321 996 $aOn the couch$92127744 997 $aUNINA