Dark traces of the past : psychoanalysis and historical thinking / edited by Jürgen Straub and Jörn Rüsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Straub, Jürgen, 1958-

Rüsen, Jörn.

Series:

Making sense of history ; v. 14.

Making sense of history ; v. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

History--Psychological aspects.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The relationship between historical studies and psychoanalysis remains an open debate that is full of tension, in both a positive and a negative sense. In particular, the following question has not been answered satisfactorily: what distinguishes a psychoanalytically oriented study of historical realities from a historical psychoanalysis? Skepticism and fear of collaboration dominate on both sides. Initiating a productive dialogue between historical studies and psychoanalysis seems to be plagued by ignorance and, at times, a sense of helplessness. Interdisciplinary collaborations are rare. Emp

Contents:

Psychoanalysis, history and historical studies : a systematic introduction / Jürgen Straub

Three memory anchors : affect, symbol, trauma / Alaida Assmann

Origin and ritualisation of historical awareness : a group analytic view and an ethnohermeneutic case reconstruction / Hans Bosse

Identity, overvaluation and re-presentating forgetting / Hinderk M. Emrich

Transgenerational trauma, identification and historical consciousness / Werner Bohleber

On the myth of objective research after Auschwitz : unconscious entanglements with the national socialist past in the investigation of long-term psychosocial consequences of the Shoah in the Federal Republic of Germany / Kurt Grunberg

Understanding transgenerational transmission : the burden of history in families of Jewish victims and their national socialist perpetrators / Jürgen Straub

On social and psychological foundations of anti-semitism / Karola Brede

From religious fantasies of omnipotence to scientific myths of emancipation : Freud and the dialectics of psychohistory / Jose Brunner

Working towards a discourse of shame : (working with shame discourse)

a psychoanalytical perspective on postwar German literary criticism / Irmgard Wagner.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613375643

9781283375641

1283375648

9781845453992

1845453999

OCLC:

775301981