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FREUD'S CONSULTING ROOM ARCHAEOLOGY AND VICO'S PRINCIPLES OF HUMANITY: A COMMUNICATION
Author(s) -
Verene Donald Phillip
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
british journal of psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1752-0118
pISSN - 0265-9883
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0118.1997.tb00335.x
Subject(s) - psyche , humanity , consciousness , psychoanalysis , psychology , psychoanalytic theory , philosophy , neuroscience , theology
Giambattista Vico (1668‐1744) and Freud both claim to have discovered a‘new science’of the human. This essay considers some intellectual connections between their two views of man, consciousness and history. Both Vico and Freud find burial and origin to be keys to an understanding of the psyche and culture. Although some attention has been given to a connection between these two thinkers, this is the first time the fundamentals of their views have been explored in philosophical terms.