Drawing the Dream of the Wolves: Homosexuality, Interpretation, and Freud's "Wolf Man" (Theories of Representation and Difference) - Softcover

Davis, Whitney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253209889 ISBN 13: 9780253209887

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1996

Synopsis

... a valuable scholarly addition to any student of Freud or as research material in a library." ―HNet, H-CAACA

Davis argues that the visual dimension of Freud’s writing is crucial to understanding its structure and significance. He offers a new and challenging reading of Freud’s case study of Serge Pankejeff, the "Wolf Man." Much of the analysis revolved around Pankejeff’s childhood dream of wolves and a drawing of this dream he made for Freud.

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From the Author

WHITNEY DAVIS, Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, is the author of Canonical Tradition in Ancient Egyptian Art; Masking the Blow: The Scene of Representation in Late Prehistoric Egyptian Art; and Replications: Archaeology, Art History, Psychoanalysis. He is the editor of Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History.

From the Back Cover

In a challenging new reading of Freud's case study of Serge Pankejeff, the "Wolf Man", Whitney Davis argues that the visual dimension of Freud's writing is crucial to an understanding of its structure and significance. Much of Freud's analysis revolved around Pankejeff's childhood dream of wolves and a drawing of this dream he made for Freud. Davis explores the drawing of the dream in Freud's interpretation of Pankejeff's "latent homosexuality", showing Freud's practice of making and using images to represent the history of persons and their sexuality. Davis also sets this case study in the wider context of Freud's evolving theoretical sexology and clinical work, his creation of psychoanalytic institutions, and his distinctive imagination of homosexual subjectivity.|In a challenging new reading of Freud's case study of Serge Pankejeff, the ""Wolf Man,"" Whitney Davis argues that the visual dimension of Freud's writing is crucial to an understanding of its structure and significance. Much of Freud's analysis revolved around Pankejeff's childhood dream of wolves and a drawing of this dream he made for Freud. Davis explores the drawing of the dream in Freud's interpretation of Pankejeff's ""latent homosexuality,"" showing Freud's practice of making and using images to represent the history of persons and their sexuality. Davis also sets this case study in the wider context of Freud's evolving theoretical sexology and clinical work, his creation of psychoanalytic institutions, and his distinctive imagination of homosexual subjectivity.

Edition details

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0253209889
• ISBN 13: 9780253209887
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288