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 Archeologie 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.
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