title: [Archaeology of childhood. Psychoanalytic conditions for realizing childhood daydreams exemplified by Heinrich Schliemann].
abstract: The biographical value of Heinrich Schliemann's memories of his childhood has always been disrupted. Following W.G. Niederland, the author characterises the famous archaeologist's powers of recall as instances of hypermnesia and not as retrospective constructs. In addition he shows that ontogenetically the conditions governing the realisation of infant ambitions are bound up with original experiences of happiness, traumatic losses without destruction of psychic substance, attempts at reparation and the preservation of the balance between the reality principle and the pleasure principle. A further factor shown to be involved is the dialectic tension between eros and thanatos. With reference to Freud's concept of the archaic heritage, the phylogenetic conditions and their links with ontogenesis are then identified with a view to elucidating why Schliemann, whose childhood ambition it was to excavate Troy, was later able to realise this boyhood dream.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Kaus
mesh_terms: D001106:Archaeology; D005197:Famous Persons; D005201:Fantasy; D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation
vernacular_title: Archäologie der Kindheit. Psychoanalytische Bedingungen für die Realisierung von kindlichen Lebensträumen am Beispiel Heinrich Schliemanns.