Archaeology of the Unconscious by Aloisi, Alessandra; Camilletti, Fabio;

Italian Perspectives

Series: Warwick Series in the Humanities;

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Edition number 1
Publisher Routledge
Date of Publication 17 July 2019

ISBN 9780367263737
Binding Hardback
No. of pages298 pages
Size 229x152 mm
Weight 453 g
Language English

Short description:

Alongside questioning pre-given narratives of the ?history of the unconscious?, this book will employ the Italian ?difference? as a powerful perspective from whence to address the undeveloped potentialities of the pre-Freudian unconscious, beyond uniquely psychoanalytical viewpoints.

Long description:

In reconstructing the birth and development of the notion of ?unconscious?, historians of ideas have heavily relied on the Freudian concept of Unbewussten, retroactively projecting the psychoanalytic unconscious over a constellation of diverse cultural experiences taking place in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries between France and Germany. Archaeology of the Unconscious aims to challenge this perspective by adopting an unusual and thought-provoking viewpoint as the one offered by the Italian case from the 1770s to the immediate aftermath of WWI, when Italo Svevo?s La coscienza di Zeno provides Italy with the first example of a ?psychoanalytic novel?. Italy?s vibrant culture of the long nineteenth century, characterised by the sedimentation, circulation, intersection, and synergy of different cultural, philosophical, and literary traditions, proves itself to be a privileged object of inquiry for an archaeological study of the unconscious; a study whose object is not the alleged ?origin? of a pre-made theoretical construct, but rather the stratifications by which that specific construct was assembled. In line with Michel Foucault?s Archéologie du savoir (1969), this volume will analyze the formation and the circulation, across different authors and texts, of a network of ideas and discourses on interconnected themes, including dreams, memory, recollection, desire, imagination, fantasy, madness, creativity, inspiration, magnetism, and somnambulism. Alongside questioning pre-given narratives of the ?history of the unconscious?, this book will employ the Italian ?difference? as a powerful perspective from whence to address the undeveloped potentialities of the pre-Freudian unconscious, beyond uniquely psychoanalytical viewpoints.

Introduction Alessandra Aloisi & Fabio Camilletti 1. Uneasy Sensibility: Pietro Verri on Pain and Pleasure Sabrina Ferri 2. Francesco Soave and the Unconscious of the Somnambulist, Dreams, Madness and Distraction in Eighteenth-Century Italy Alessandra Aloisi 3. Jacopo?s Secret Franco D?Intino 4. Leopardi?s Night (T)errors, the Uncanny, and the ?Old Wives? Tales? Fabio Camilletti 5. At the Frontiers of Dreams. The Nightmares of the Vita Nuova Read Through Freud and Manzoni Andrea Malagamba 6. Italian Mesmerism, Religion and the Unconscious. Irresistible Analogies from Muratori to Morselli Paola Cori 7. Magnetic Culture and the Self in Post-Unification Italy Morena Corradi 8. Drawing-Room Shivers: Spiritualism and Uneasy Presences on the Pages of La Domenica del Corriere Fabrizio Foni and Irene Incarico 9. Subconscious and Oneiric Consciousness in the Late Nineteenth Century (and Beyond): a Focus on Sante De Sanctis?s Dream Studies Sara Boezio 10. Metamorphosis and Nightmare in Leopardi and Svevo Olmo Calzolari 11. Is There an Unconscious in This Text? On Italo Svevo?s La coscienza di Zeno Alessandra Diazzi Bibliography