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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Gay, Peter, 1923-2015.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Psychohistory.
Psychoanalytic Interpretation.
Psychoanalytic Theory.
History.
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
Freud, Sigmund.
Medical Subjects:
Psychoanalytic Interpretation.
Psychoanalytic Theory.
History.
Physical Description:
xx, 252 pages ; 22 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
Summary:
Is psychoanalysis a legitimate tool for helping us understand the past? Many traditional historians have answered with an emphatic no, greeting the introduction of Freud into historical study with responses ranging from condescending skepticism to outrage. Now Peter Gay, one of America's leading historians, builds and eloquent case for "history informed by psychoanalysis" and offers an impressive rebuttal to the charges of the profession's anti-Freudians.
Contents:
Secret needs of the heart
The claims of Freud
Human nature in history
Reason, reality, psychoanalysis and the historian
From couch to culture
The program in practice.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-237) and index.
Other Format:
Online version: Gay, Peter, 1923- Freud for historians.
ISBN:
0195035860
9780195035865
019504228X
9780195042283
1423734483
9781423734482
OCLC:
12051187

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