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Freud and Volkan: Psychoanalysis, group identities and archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ian Russell
Ian Russell*
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Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (Email: russelli@tcd.ie)
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Social groupings create material cultures and material objects reflect and maintain group identities. The author explores the role of psychoanalysis in examining and explaining the origins and the need for these identities — and their material symbols — in the mind. He then shows that modern archaeology itself needs psychoanalysing: as a purveyor of culture, it is in the business of creating or reinforcing modern identities.

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Archaeological theorypsychoanalysissocial organisationsymbolic archaeologyheritage
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Debate
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Antiquity , Volume 80 , Issue 307 , 1 March 2006 , pp. 185 - 195
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2006

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