
Psychoanalysis and History
Duke University Press
Published on 31. March 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
145 pages
978-1-4780-1734-9 (ISBN)
Description
The relationship between history and psychoanalysis has long been contentious, starting with Freud's ambivalence toward history, with some declaring the two fields to be largely incommensurable. The contributors to this special issue rethink this complicated dynamic, demonstrating both the uses of psychoanalysis for interrogating historical narratives and the importance of history for psychoanalytic analysis. Essays address how psychoanalysis reframes the ways historians have represented the Holocaust and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, investigate neoliberal group psychology by studying the emergence of QAnon, trace the political trajectories of psychoanalysis in the mid-twentieth century, and find previously unexplored links between Freud and the US plantation economy. Together, the essays testify to the importance of considering the unconscious dimensions of thought when attempting to understand the workings of politics and representations of the past.
Contributors. Max Cavitch, Zahid R. Chaudhary, Alex Colston, Brian Connolly, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, David L. Eng, Joan Wallach Scott, Carolyn Shapiro, Michelle Stephens
Contributors. Max Cavitch, Zahid R. Chaudhary, Alex Colston, Brian Connolly, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, David L. Eng, Joan Wallach Scott, Carolyn Shapiro, Michelle Stephens
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Language
English
Place of publication
North Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
4 illustrations
ISBN-13
978-1-4780-1734-9 (9781478017349)
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Brian Connolly is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida and author of Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America.
Joan Wallach Scott is Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, and author of many books, including The Fantasy of Feminist History, also published by Duke University Press. They are coeditors of History of the Present.
Joan Wallach Scott is Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, and author of many books, including The Fantasy of Feminist History, also published by Duke University Press. They are coeditors of History of the Present.