ON THE COUCH / A REPRESSED HISTORY OF THE ANALYTIC COUCH FROM PLATO TO FREUD

From bed to bench to settee to chaise-longue to sofa: Kravis tells how the couch became an icon of self-knowledge and self-reflectio n as well as a site for pleasure, privacy, transgression, and healing.Kravis draws on sources that range from ancient funerary monum ents to furniture history to early photography, as well as histories of medicine, fashion, and interior decoration, and he deploys a n astonishing array of images -- of paintings, monuments, sculpture, photographs, illustrations, New Yorker cartoons, and advertisem ents. Kr...[Read more]