Mirrors of Memory – Freud, Photography, and the History of Art Bergstein

Mirrors of MemoryFreud, Photography, and the History of Art\nAuthor(s): Mary Bergstein\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801448195, 978-0801448195\nSynopsis\nPhotographs shaped the view of the world in turn-of-the-century Central Europe, bringing images of everything from natural and cultural history to masterpieces of Greek sculpture into homes and offices. Sigmund Freud's libraryno exception to this trendwas filled with individual photographs and images in books. According to Mary Bergstein, these photographs also profoundly shaped Freud's thinking in ways that were no less important because they may have been involuntary and unconscious. In Mirrors of Memory, lavishly illustrated with reproductions of the photos from Freud's voluminous collection, she argues that studying the man and his photographs uncovers a key to the origins of psychoanalysis. \n\n In Freud's era, photographs were viewed as tr.