Edition: Psychoanalysis and History, Bd 25, no. 2, August 2023

ISBN: Print ISSN: 1460-8235

Veröffentlicht am: 02.08.2023

Weiteres:

https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/pah/25/2

This Special Section on Carlo Ginzburg and psychoanalysis presents two conversations, turning on the role of Freud. The first discussion is documented by a selection of Ginzburg’ s correspondence with the great Italian philologist and intellectual Sebastiano Timpanaro. These letters, which appear here for the first time in English translation, not only constitute an important source for the Italian reception of psychoanalysis in its relation to the emergence of microhistory, by opening a window on to the political-intellectual microcosm of the 1970s, but also allow us to reread the work of both scholars in the light of an epistemological debate crucial to our current understanding of psychoanalysis and the human sciences at large. The second conversation, drawn from a number of public and private discussions between Carlo Ginzburg and Andreas Mayer recorded in 2022 takes this epistemological debate as a starting point for a retrospective reflection on some of the major historiographical shifts that occurred within the past two decades, both in Ginzburg’ s own approach and with regard to the role Freud’ s work has played in the history of the human sciences more generally.