The lecture offers a reading of Freud’s famous description of his 1904 visit to the Acropolis with the aim of showing how his notion of the unconscious was entangled with his complicated relationship with antiquity. “A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis” written in 1936 provides a specimen of self analysis in which Freud's relationship with antiquity is examined as inseparable from his relationship with his father. Freud's imaginative encounter with his dead father on the Acropolis reveals how the "language of the unconscious" can teach us about the intrinsic relationship between the past and the present, between antiquity and modernity. 
 
Vered Lev Kenaan (Ph.D Yale University 95) is an associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, the University of Haifa. Among her publications are a book on the Myth of the First Woman (Pandora's Senses: The Feminine Sense of the Ancient Text, Wisconsin University Press, 2008) and numerous articles on Gender, Textuality and Dream Interpretation in Greek and Latin Literature.