Abstract
Sigmund Freud often compared the work of psychoanalysis to that of archeology. He was fully aware of the coessentiality between his aspiration for the investigation into the depth of psyche and his personal addiction to archeology.
In this paper we grasp Freud’s hermeneutics as an “archeology”, so the comparison of psychoanalysis to archeology turns out to be essential rather than expedient for him.
The work of psychoanalysis consists in the retroaction to the traumatic event that caused the present symptom and the re-experience of it under the more developed and more matured system of psyche. This work makes one’s bygone the past in the full sense, and enables one’s present life sound.
When we read his writings about religion, especially Totem and Tabu (1913) and Moses and Monotheism (1939), from this point of view, we can find why and how Freud analysed his own cultural and religious tradition, and mourned for its loss by means of the reconstruction of the “historical truth” from the damaged stories.
