When considered in parallel, Sigmund Freud's study of Michelangelo's Moses and his private collection of antique statuettes reveal elements of visual psychoanalysis that contradict the supposedly iconoclastic nature of this science.
An art historian and philosopher, Horst Bredekamp is professor at the Institute for the History of Art and Image at Berlin's Humboldt University and, since 2019, senior co-director of the Matters of Activity cluster of excellence. Author of numerous books and articles, he has won several awards in Germany, including the Sigmund-Freud Prize (2001).
Translated from the German by Emmanuel Faure (original title: Sigmund Freuds figürliche Psychoanalyse – Der Moses Michelangelos und die Sammlung von Idolen, Schwabe, 2023).
