Decoding the Past
The Psychohistorical Approach
2nd Edition
Published on 6. February 2018
330 pages
978-1-351-52323-3 (ISBN)
Description
In Decoding the Past, Peter Loewenberg has collected eleven of his brilliant essays on psychohistory, a discipline that has emerged from the synthesis of traditional historical analysis and clinical psychoanalysis. He surveys this relatively new field its methods and its problems to show the special contributions that psychoanalysis can make to history. He then further explores the psychohistorical method by applying it to studies of personality, cultures, groups, and mass movements, demonstrating that psychohistory offers one of the most powerful of interpretive approaches to history.
Decoding the Past is an impressive study that demonstrates the range of Loewenberg's own work in history and psychoanalysis and the full promise of an important and innovative methodology for others. His new essay takes up many of the criticisms and concerns raised about the method of psychohistory, and offers a cogent defense for its continued usage.
Decoding the Past is an impressive study that demonstrates the range of Loewenberg's own work in history and psychoanalysis and the full promise of an important and innovative methodology for others. His new essay takes up many of the criticisms and concerns raised about the method of psychohistory, and offers a cogent defense for its continued usage.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
1,89 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-52323-3 (9781351523233)
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Person
Peter Loewenberg
Content
On Psychohistory; I: Psychoanalysis and History; Psychohistory; II: The Education of a Psychohistorian; Emotional Problems of Graduate Education; The Graduate Years; Love and Hate in the Academy; The Psychobiographical Background to Psychohistory; III: Austrian Portraits; Theodor Herzl; Victor and Friedrich Adler; Austro-Marxism and Revolution; IV: The German Case; The Unsuccessful Adolescence of Heinrich Himmler; The Psychohistorical Origins of the Nazi Youth Cohort
