History and Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis, and the Past [Hardcover]

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.PART I: FREUD, FREUDIANISM AND HISTORY The Psychoanalytic Corner: Notes on a Conversation with Peter Gay; M.Roth Freud, Fin-de-si?cle Politics, and the Making of Psychoanalysis; T.G.Ashplant The Narcissistic Homosexual: Genealogy of a Myth; E.Lunbeck PART II: PSYCHOANALYTIC PASTS The English Freud: W.H.R. Rivers, Psychotherapy, and the Early Twentieth-century Human Sciences; J.Forrester European Witness: Analysands abroad in the 1920s and 1930s; L.Marcus Beyond Containing: the First World War and the Psychoanalytic Theories of Wilfred Bion; M.Roper 'Primary Maternal Pre-occupation': D.W. Winnicott and Social Democracy in Mid-20th Century Britain; S.Alexander Freud's Stepchild: Adolescent Subjectivity and Psychoanalysis; P.Thurschwell PART III: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND HISTORICAL SUBJECTIVITIES Historical Subjectivity; B.Taylor Keeping Our Distance; A.Phillips The Seven-Headed Monster: Luther and Psychology; L.Roper Elizabeth Isham's Everlasting Library: Memory and Self in Early Modern Autobiography; K.Hodgkin Postwar Art and the Psychoanalytic Imaginary; A.Potts The Pursuit of Serenity: Psychological Knowledge and the Making of the British Welfare State; R.Hayward An Eclectic Ego-Histoire; L.Passerini Afterword; P.Burke

'This rich and interesting collection will provide an essential resource for those wanting to explore creative encounters between psychoanalysis and history.' - Radical Philosophy

For a century psychoanalysts have carefully listened to their patient's accounts of their past and together have constructed 'a history.' This volume has brilliantly transformed that past into a rich and moving account of l#"