Abstract

DELOUYA, Daniel. Archaeology and psychoanalysis: what kind of history is this?. Ide (São Paulo) [online]. 2025, vol.47, n.80, pp.93-105.  Epub Feb 09, 2026. ISSN 0101-3106.  https://doi.org/10.5935/0101-3106.v47n80.09.

This article examines the intersections between psychoanalysis and archaeology in their methods, processes, and aims. The central focus lies in their relationship to history—differentiating between material history and the history of experience, understood both as a mode of inhabiting the world and as a primary expression of desire. To illustrate this convergence, the paper draws on Freud’s self-analysis, set alongside his analytic work with patients, as well as the singular psychic relation of the archaeologist H. Schliemann to the objects of his excavations. The discussion is further enriched by clinical vignettes and by contributions from historians and archaeologists. The conclusion is striking, suggesting an even closer affinity between psychoanalysis and archaeology than Freud himself acknowledged.

Keywords : scenes; scenario; memory; material reality; cultural experience.

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