History and psyche : culture, psychoanalysis, and the past / edited by Sally Alexander and Barbara Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexander, Sally, 1943- author, compiler of edition.

Taylor, Barbara, 1950 April 11- author, compiler of edition.

Series:

Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis--History.

Psychoanalysis.

History.

Psychoanalysis--history.

Medical Subjects:

Psychoanalysis--history.

Physical Description:

vii, 347 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

The relationship between psychoanalysis and history is a longstanding, productive, and controversial one. From Freud onward, psychoanalytic thinkers have looked to history for insights into the operations of the human mind. Historians, meanwhile, have been more equivocal about the value of psychoanalysis for their discipline, but the resurgent interest in psychoanalysis across the humanities in recent decades indicates that a reassessment is in order. History and Psyche provides a much-needed new exploration of this fraught intellectual terrain, bringing together essays by sixteen leading scholars across multiple disciplines. The contributions gathered here cover a wide range of topics, from historical subjectivity to the political history of the Oedipus complex to early modern autobiography, making this an invaluable survey of a complex and contested field. Book jacket.

Contents:

The psychoanalytic corner : notes on a conversation with Peter Gay / Michael Roth

Freud, fin-de-siecle politics, and the making of psychoanalysis / T.G. Ashplant

The narcissistic homosexual : genealogy of a myth / Elizabeth Lunbeck

The English Freud : W.H.R. Rivers, psychotherapy, and the early twentieth-century human sciences / John Forrester

European witness : analysands abroad in the 1920s and 1930s / Laura Marcus

Beyond containing : the First World War and the psychoanalytic theories of Wilfred Bion / Michael Roper

Primary maternal pre-occupation : D.W. Winnicott and social democracy in mid-20th century britain / Sally Alexander

Freud's stepchild : adolescent subjectivity and psychoanalysis / Pam Thurschwell

Historical subjectivity / Barbara Taylor

Keeping our distance / Adam Phillips

The seven-headed monster : Luther and psychology / Lyndal Roper

Elizabeth Isham's Everlasting library : memory and self in early modern autobiography / Katharine Hodgkin

Postwar art and the psychoanalytic imaginary / Alex Potts

The pursuit of serenity : psychological knowledge and the making of the British welfare state / Rhodri Hayward

An eclectic ego-histoire / Luisa Passerini

Afterword / Peter Burke.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230113367

0230113362

OCLC:

769987230

Publisher Number:

40021710512