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This page intentionally left blank Freud’s Rome ThisbookisameditationontheroleofpsychoanalysiswithinLatinliterary studies. Neither a skeptic nor a true believer, Oliensis adopts a pragmatic approach to her subject, emphasizing what psychoanalytic theory has to contributetointerpretation.DrawingespeciallyonFreud’sworkondreams andslips,shespotlightstextualphenomenathatcannotbesecurelyanchored inanyintentionorpsychebutthatnevertheless,orforthatveryreason,seem fraughtwithmeaning;the“textualunconscious”ishernamefortheindef- initeplacefromwhichthesephenomenaerupt,orwhichtheyretroactively constitute,asakindof“unconsciousness-effect.”Thediscussionisorganized aroundthreekeytopicsinpsychoanalysis–mourning,motherhood,andthe origins of sexualdifference – and takes the poetryof Catullus, Virgil,and Ovid as its point of reference. A brief afterword considers Freud’s own wittingandunwittingengagementwiththeideaofRome. Ellen Oliensis isProfessorofClassicsattheUniversityofCalifornia, Berkeley.SheistheauthorofHoraceandtheRhetoricofAuthority(1998)as wellasassortedessaysonLatinliterature. ROMAN LITERATURE AND ITS CONTEXTS Freud’s Rome ROMAN LITERATURE AND ITS CONTEXTS Serieseditors DenisFeeneyandStephenHinds This series promotes approaches to Roman literature which are open to dialoguewithcurrentworkinotherareasoftheclassics,andinthehuman- ities at large. The pursuit of contacts with cognate fields such as social history,anthropology,historyofthought,linguisticsandliterarytheoryis inthebesttraditionsofclassicalscholarship:thestudyofRomanliterature, nolessthanGreek,hasmuchtogainfromengagingwiththeseothercontexts andintellectualtraditions.TheseriesoffersaforuminwhichreadersofLatin texts can sharpen their readings by placing them in broader and better- definedcontexts,andinwhichotherclassicistsandhumanistscanexplore thegeneralorparticularimplicationsoftheirworkforreadersofLatintexts. Thebooksallconstituteoriginalandinnovativeresearchandareenvisaged assuggestiveessayswhoseaimistostimulatedebate. Otherbooksintheseries Richard Hunter, TheshadowofCallimachus:studiesinthereceptionof HellenisticpoetryatRome James J. O’Hara, InconsistencyinRomanepic:studiesinCatullus,Lucretius, Vergil,OvidandLucan Alain Gowing, Empireandmemory:therepresentationoftheRomanRepublic inimperialculture Joseph Farrell, LatinlanguageandLatinculture:fromancienttomoderntimes A.M. Keith, EngenderingRome:womeninLatinepic William Fitzgerald, SlaveryandtheRomanliteraryimagination Stephen Hinds, Allusionandintertext:dynamicsofappropriationin Romanpoetry Denis Feeney, LiteratureandreligionatRome:cultures,contexts,andbeliefs Catherine Edwards, WritingRome:textualapproachestothecity Duncan F. Kennedy, Theartsoflove:fivestudiesinthediscourseofRoman loveelegy Charles Martindale, Redeemingthetext:Latinpoetryandthe hermeneuticsofreception Philip Hardie, TheepicsuccessorsofVirgil:astudyinthedynamics ofatradition Freud’s Rome Psychoanalysis and Latin Poetry Ellen Oliensis ProfessorofClassics, UniversityofCalifornia, Berkeley CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Dubai, Tokyo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521846615 © Ellen Oliensis 2009 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2009 ISBN-13 978-0-511-65823-5 eBook (NetLibrary) ISBN-13 978-0-521-84661-5 Hardback ISBN-13 978-0-521-60910-4 Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.
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