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On Dangerous GroundFreuds Visual Cultures of the Unconscious\nAuthor(s): Diane O'Donoghue\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781501327957, 978-1501327957\nSynopsis\nWinner of the 2019 Robert S. Liebert Award (established jointly by the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine and the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research)\n\nIn the final years of the 19th century, Sigmund Freud began to construct evidence for the workings of an unconscious. On Dangerous Ground offers an innovative assessment of the complex role that his encounters with visual culturesarchitecture, objects from earlier cultural epochs (antiquities), paintings, and illustrated booksplayed in that process. Diane ODonoghue introduces, often using unpublished archival sources, the ways in which material phenomena profoundly informed Freuds decisions about what would, and would not, constitute the workings of an inner .