Rather, it is shaped by cultural conditions and expressed in products of culture beyond the purely individual sphere, for example, in the accusations and testimonials of witch trials. She stresses that the unconscious is not ahistorical. This is clear from the beginning and this remains the focal point of the study.įollowing the basic argument of her early work Oedipus and the Devil, (14) Roper attempts to see witch beliefs and witch hunts as motivated by the unconscious. Witchcraft is essentially about motherhood and fertility. The picture seems to symbolize Roper's treatment of witchcraft. The dust jacket of Lyndal Roper's new book on witchcraft sports a reproduction of Fussli's "The Three Witches." The three women all point in one direction. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany.
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