{"title":"Great is the Parable of Diana of the Ephesians!","authors":"M. Katz","doi":"10.1353/aim.2021.0008","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Freud's untitled four-paragraph text known as \"Great is Diana of the Ephesians\" has belied categorization and befuddled scholars to this day, reflecting broader issues in scholarly approaches to Freud's writings on the history of religion. Scholars generally agree that the essay represents Freud's first foray into the cult of the mother goddess but have failed to arrive at a consensus on what literary form his analysis takes, whether quotation, summary, review, commentary, criticism, or history. This paper explores how misleading assumptions about the content of the essay have obscured Freud's original authorial intentions, which I recover by solving the riddle of the essay's form.","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":"78 1","pages":"389 - 418"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AMERICAN IMAGO","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2021.0008","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Freud's untitled four-paragraph text known as "Great is Diana of the Ephesians" has belied categorization and befuddled scholars to this day, reflecting broader issues in scholarly approaches to Freud's writings on the history of religion. Scholars generally agree that the essay represents Freud's first foray into the cult of the mother goddess but have failed to arrive at a consensus on what literary form his analysis takes, whether quotation, summary, review, commentary, criticism, or history. This paper explores how misleading assumptions about the content of the essay have obscured Freud's original authorial intentions, which I recover by solving the riddle of the essay's form.
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Founded in 1939 by Sigmund Freud and Hanns Sachs, AMERICAN IMAGO is the preeminent scholarly journal of psychoanalysis. Appearing quarterly, AMERICAN IMAGO publishes innovative articles on the history and theory of psychoanalysis as well as on the reciprocal relations between psychoanalysis and the broad range of disciplines that constitute the human sciences. Since 2001, the journal has been edited by Peter L. Rudnytsky, who has made each issue a "special issue" and introduced a topical book review section, with a guest editor for every Fall issue.