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ON THE COUCH 11004_000_mm.indd 1 6/21/17 3:27 PM 11004_000_mm.indd 2 6/21/17 3:27 PM ON THE COUCH A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud Nathan Kravis The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 11004_000_mm.indd 3 6/21/17 3:27 PM © 2017 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. This book was set in PF Din Pro by the MIT Press. Printed and bound in Spain. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Kravis, Nathan, author. Title: On the couch : a repressed history of the analytic couch from Plato to Freud / Nathan Kravis. Description: Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016052900 | ISBN 9780262036610 (hardcover : alk. paper) Subjects: | MESH: Psychoanalysis--history | Psychotherapeutic Processes | Interior Design and Furnishings-- history | Patient Positioning | Professional-Patient Relations Classification: LCC RC506 | NLM WM 11.1 | DDC 616.89/17--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016052900 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 11004_000_mm.indd 4 6/21/17 3:27 PM for Leora 11004_000_mm.indd 5 6/21/17 3:27 PM 11004_000_mm.indd 6 6/21/17 3:27 PM Socrates to Strepsiades: Just lie down there … And try and think out one of your own problems. Aristophanes, The Clouds (423 BCE), trans. A. H. Sommerstein 11004_000_mm.indd 7 6/21/17 3:27 PM 11004_000_mm.indd 8 6/21/17 3:27 PM Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xv 1 Why Is the Couch Used in Psychoanalysis? 1 2 Symposion and Convivium 11 3 The Evolution of the Couch and the Rise of the Sofa 35 4 Comfort, Recumbence, Interiority, and Transgression 47 5 The Medicalization of Comfort 85 6 Recumbent Posture in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry and Therapeutics 115 7 Freud’s Couch 127 8 The Analyst’s Moral Interior 139 9 Whence? Whither? Whether? 157 Notes 173 References 183 Illustration Credits 189 Index 195 11004_000_mm.indd 9 6/21/17 5:38 PM
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