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The Doctor Is Still In: Freud Exhibit Starts Its Tour at Library of Congress
Lynne Lamberg
JAMA contributor
JAMA. 1998;280:1976-1977.
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THE LONG-AWAITED exhibit, "Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture," is now on view at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and in an abbreviated version at the Library's Web site, http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/freud.
The show aims to trace Freud's impact on the 20th century, presenting a historical account of the evolution of Freud's theories on how the mind works, an overview of his key concepts, and the appropriation of these ideas by popular culture, according to its curator, Michael S. Roth, associate director of the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, in Los Angeles.
The Freud exhibit includes more than 170 vintage photographs, books, manuscripts, letters, and artifacts, augmented by some 200 video clips from films, cartoons, and television programs. The material on display comes from the more than 80,000 items in the Freud collection of the Library of Congress. It also contains items . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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