Hooker on the mental health of Portable Antiquity Collectors

John Hooker (Deconstructing Cultural Heritage as it applies to property p. [7]) Suggests that if somebody stops collecting portable antiquities, the “energy that was given to collecting” has to be redirected , otherwise “if this did not happen then a severe psychic disturbance could ensue and any suppression of this energy might result in any number of possible neuroses”. I bet kleptomaniacs and bus stop vandals say the same thing.

Perhaps we might ask just what it is that this “energy” and compulsion to collect consists of in the first place.