History and Psyche [electronic resource] : Culture, Psychoanalysis, and the Past /
Alexander, S.editor.
Taylor, B.editor.
Today, a widening range of historical phenomena are being examined through the psychoanalytic lens, while the psychoanalytic tradition itself is coming in for unprecedented historical scrutiny. This collection of essays showcases the innovative, and sometimes contentious, encounters between psychoanalysis and history.
Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Freud, Freudianism, and History; 1 The Psychoanalytic Corner: Notes on a Conversation with Peter Gay; 2 Freud, Fin-de-siècle Politics, and the Making of Psychoanalysis; 3 The Narcissistic Homosexual: Genealogy of a Myth; Part II Psychoanalytic Pasts; 4 The English Freud: W. H. R. Rivers, Dreaming, and the Making of the Early Twentieth-Century Human Sciences; 5 European Witness: Analysands Abroad in the 1920s and 1930s; 6 Beyond Containing: World War I and the Psychoanalytic Theories of Wilfred Bion
7 Primary Maternal Preoccupation: D. W. Winnicott and Social Democracy in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain8 Freud's Stepchild: Adolescent Subjectivity and Psychoanalysis; Part III Psychoanalysis and Historical Subjectivities; 9 Historical Subjectivity; 10 Keeping Our Distance; 11 The Seven-Headed Monster: Luther and Psychology; 12 Elizabeth Isham's Everlasting Library: Memory and Self in Early Modern Autobiography; 13 Postwar Art and the Psychoanalytic Imaginary; 14 The Pursuit of Serenity: Psychological Knowledge and the Making of the British Welfare State; 15 An Eclectic Ego-Histoire
AfterwordNotes on Contributors; Index
Includes index.
Today, a widening range of historical phenomena are being examined through the psychoanalytic lens, while the psychoanalytic tradition itself is coming in for unprecedented historical scrutiny. This collection of essays showcases the innovative, and sometimes contentious, encounters between psychoanalysis and history.
Civilization-History.
Europe-History.
Psychoanalysis.
Psychology.
Social history.
History, Modern.
Cultural History.
European History.
Psychoanalysis.
Popular Science in Psychology.
Social History.
Modern History.