Fantasy and Reality in History
1st Edition
Published on 19. October 1995
246 pages
978-0-19-536189-6 (ISBN)
Description
In Fantasy and Reality in History, Peter Loewenberg brings what the discipline of psychoanalysis has learned about human conduct and the irrational to bear on the analysis and writing of history. The result is a remarkable series of studies on individual and social anxiety, racism and nationalism, and crisis management.
First examining early twentieth century Zürich and the first practitioners of psychoanalysis--Freud, C.G. Jung, Karl Abraham, and others--to establish the discipline's understanding of the unconscious and how it functions, Loewenberg then explores the tensions in the lives and politics of modern political leaders. The great British Liberal Prime Minister Walther Rathenau, and the Russian fascist demagogue Vladimir Zhirinovsky are among those studied.
In each of these interconnected essays, Fantasy and Reality in History makes readily evident the advantages, and unique insights, that psychoanalytical techniques can provide in the examination of history. Loewenberg's blend of clinical and historico-political methods not only produces new exciting research, but demonstrates how it is done.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction: On Psychohistorical Method
- I: PSYCHOANALYSIS, SOCIAL STRUCTURE, AND CULTURE
- 1. Why Social Science Needs Psychoanalysis: From Weber to Freud
- 2. The Pagan Freud
- 3. Sigmund Freud's Psychosocial Identity
- 4. The Creation of a Scientific Community: The Burghölzli, 1902-1914
- II: POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AND THE IRRATIONAL
- 5. Gladstone, Sin, and the Bulgarian Horrors
- 6. The Murder and Mythification of Walther Rathenau
- 7. Karl Renner and the Politics of Accommodation: Moderation versus Revenge
- 8. The Inner World of Vladimir Zhirinovsky: The Self-Presentation of a "Hero
- III: PSYCHODYNAMICS AND THE SOCIAL PROCESS
- 9. Anxiety in History
- 10. Racism in Comparative Historical Perspective
- 11. The Psychodynamics of Nationalism
- 12. Crisis Management: From Therapy to Government and from the Oval Office to the Couch
- Index
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