Sigmund Freud's Figural Psychoanalysis: Michelangelo's Moses and the Collection of Idols

Sigmund Freud's research into Michelangelo's Moses and the collection of small sculpted figures from Antiquity that he amassed attest to a visual psychoanalysis that contradicted the reputed iconoclasm of that discipline. Freud himself drew inspiration from items in his collection; but he also incorporated these into the treatment of his patients. As revealed by this book, what we now know of these aspects of his life and work may serve as a key to a deeper understanding of his theory of th...