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Richard Armstrong's "A Compulsion for Antiquity"

Oedipus, Ur, and a whole lot more...A Compulsion for Antiquity

“It is surely no sign of neurosis to find the questions discussed in this book as compelling as they are timely. In an entirely non-clinical sense, everyone engaged in cultural history, cultural studies, and the history of ideas will be anxious to read it.”—Times Literary Supplement

“Intellectual historians will be grateful for this path-breaking humanistic exploration of a subject that has been unduly neglected until now.”  — American Journal of Psychiatry

“This is an important contribution to Freud/psychoanalysis studies and the history of 19th and 20th c. German(-Jewish) Bildungsbürgertum . In many ways it is a superb example of a cross-disciplinary study, for it drives home that while we social scientists may well have gained much from specialization, those scholars able to breach modern disciplinary boundaries can reveal a great deal about our collective historical archive as well as our continuing interest in (the history of) psychoanalysis.”  —J ournal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences