Word: amenhotep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot dismiss Amenhotep. He was the first monotheist among the Egyptians. He was a great genius, very human, very individual. That he scratched out his father's name is not the main thing at all." Whereupon Freud fainted dead away. Jung's explanation: "Indirectly, he was continuing his reproach that I had scratched out the father's name-that is, his name...
...each other's dreams. Freud cast Jung in the role of his intellectual son and heir. But the halcyon days were over. At Munich in 1912, Freud upbraided Jung for writing about psychoanalysis without mentioning the founder's name. The talk turned to Egypt's King Amenhotep IV as founder of a religion. "He is the one who scratched out his father's name on the monuments," said Freud. "Yes." Jung replied, "but with that...
Bothmer noted similarities to a statue of Amenhotep II (ruler of Egypt from 1448 to 1420 B.C.) at Thebes. When he read that the Louvre had another Amenhotep statue-headless-Bothmer swung into action like Sergeant Friday trying to identify a corpse. He trekked to Paris, compared the size and workmanship of the two pieces of sculpture. After long study, experts decided beyond doubt that the Boston head belonged to the Paris torso. Last week the results of Bothmer's artistic detective work were on view in the Boston Museum. Plaster casts of the body and head had been...