Recovering the Past: Egypt and Greece

Few ancient cultures have been studied as intensely as ancient Egypt and Greece.  But how exactly do we learn about these ancient cultures and their connections?  This multimedia event looks at the many ways in which the Graeco-Egyptian past has been recovered.  Come and find out all about it—the recuperation of texts on papyri, the […]

Centre for Myth Studies seminar: ‘Return to Oedipus’

University of Essex Colchester, United Kingdom

Open Seminar Centre for Myth Studies University of Essex Room EBS.1.1   Return to Oedipus   Professor Marinos Pourgouris (University of Cyprus)   If there is one story, one narrative, at the very centre of Freudian theory, it is undoubtedly structured around the myth of Oedipus. The story of Oedipus has become, as Shoshana Felman […]

The Frightful and the Familiar: Exploring the Uncanny in the Ancient World

University of Liverpool

Since its establishment as a fixed idea by Sigmund Freud in his 1919 essay Das Unheimliche, the concept of the Uncanny has been examined and developed by a range of thinkers and theorists from different fields, including Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva. This workshop aims to explore ancient conceptions and manifestations of the Uncanny and […]

Freud’s Archaeology

The Warburg Institute Woburn Square, London

Freud’s interest in antiquity and his self-described obsessive collecting of ancient artefacts is well documented. His library, as well as his own texts, are replete with references to excavation, buried cities, and to the works of archaeologists and philologists. The dialogue between analysis and excavation that prevails throughout Freud’s thought has since generated a history […]