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How many times have we watched this classic mise-en-scene in a movie or even a theater, read about it in books: the psychologist's office, he or she sits in a chair and listens intently to the client lying on the couch, who looks at the ceiling with hope or despair and talks about adversity. There should finally have been a time when someone would be interested - why the couch? Why did it become a symbol of psychoanalysis? What did Freud want to say to us when he put this object into circulation?
.Nathan Craves, a psychoanalyst from New York, where, as you know, even psychoanalysts have psychoanalysts, decided to deal with the topic of the couch once and for all. For twenty-five years he has researched its history both in terms of psychology and in terms of art, furniture, fashion, clothing. And so the book was born, which, according to the author himself, will be interesting to those who care about "soul therapy", as well as experts in the history and design of furniture and interior, art historians and cultural scientists.
So, before you - the history of the couch in a cultural context, from Plato to Freud, from The New Yorker magazine to posters in the subway - in words and pictures.