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Witches : a psychoanalytic exploration of the killing of women / Evelyn Heinemann ; translated by Donald Kiraly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heinemann, Evelyn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women and psychoanalysis.
- Witchcraft.
- Witchcraft--History.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 163 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Free Association Books, 2000.
- Contents:
- 1 The Persecution of Witches 5
- Witchcraft Trials and the Persecution of Witches 5
- Did Women's Power Underlie the fear of Witches? 18
- The Notion of Witches 24
- 2 How Women Became Witches 30
- Accusations of Witchcraft 30
- The Psychoanalysis of Witchcraft Accusations 34
- The Accused Women 38
- 3 The Fear of Witches 43
- God and the Devil, the Virgin Mary and the Witch 43
- The Psychogenesis of the Notion of Witches and the Devil 45
- Childhood in the Early Modern Age 51
- 4 The Early Modern Age 57
- Society 57
- The Drives and the Ego 61
- 5 The Psychic Conflict 68
- The Reformer 68
- The Possessed 71
- The Changeling 78
- Child Witnesses 81
- The Living Saints 86
- 6 Psychoanalysis and History 91
- Freud 91
- Psychoanalysis and Historians 106
- Psychoanalysis and Culture 115
- 7 The Study in the Light of Psychoanalytic Theory 124
- Witches, Saints and the Superego 124
- Possessed Women and Hysteria 136
- Witches and Living Saints Today? 141.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [144]-153) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1853434787
- OCLC:
- 42578906
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