History and Psyche

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Sally Alexander, Barbara Taylor

      Pages 1-10

3. Freud, Freudianism, and History

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. The Psychoanalytic Corner: Notes on a Conversation with Peter Gay

      • Michael S. Roth

      Pages 13-26

   3. Freud, Fin-de-siècle Politics, and the Making of Psychoanalysis

      • T. G. Ashplant

      Pages 27-47

   4. The Narcissistic Homosexual: Genealogy of a Myth

      • Elizabeth Lunbeck

      Pages 49-67

4. Psychoanalytic Pasts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. The English Freud: W. H. R. Rivers, Dreaming, and the Making of the Early Twentieth-Century Human Sciences

      • John Forrester

      Pages 71-104

   3. European Witness: Analysands Abroad in the 1920s and 1930s

      • Laura Marcus

      Pages 105-127

   4. Beyond Containing: World War I and the Psychoanalytic Theories of Wilfred Bion

      • Michael Roper

      Pages 129-147

   5. Primary Maternal Preoccupation: D. W. Winnicott and Social Democracy in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain

      • Sally Alexander

      Pages 149-172

   6. Freud’s Stepchild: Adolescent Subjectivity and Psychoanalysis

      • Pamela Thurschwell

      Pages 173-192

5. Psychoanalysis and Historical Subjectivities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193

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   2. Historical Subjectivity

      • Barbara Taylor

      Pages 195-210

   3. Keeping Our Distance

      • Adam Phillips

      Pages 211-217

   4. The Seven-Headed Monster: Luther and Psychology

      • Lyndal Roper

      Pages 219-240

   5. Elizabeth Isham’s Everlasting Library: Memory and Self in Early Modern Autobiography

      • Katharine Hodgkin

      Pages 241-264

   6. Postwar Art and the Psychoanalytic Imaginary

      • Alex Potts

      Pages 265-281

   7. The Pursuit of Serenity: Psychological Knowledge and the Making of the British Welfare State

      • Rhodri Hayward

      Pages 283-304

   8. An Eclectic Ego-Histoire

      • Luisa Passerini

      Pages 305-324

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.

• Britain
• democracy
• Europe
• history
• Martin Luther
• memory
• psyche
• psychoanalysis
• psychology
• psychotherapy

'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 psychoanalytical historiography." - Christopher Bollas, psychoanalyst

"The authors of these provocative and wonderfully inviting essays have put psychoanalysis back on the historical agenda: they show the pertinence of psychoanalysis for history writing today and at the same time provide important new historical perspectives on the articulation of psychoanalysis as a method." - Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, UCLA, USA

T. G. Ashplant, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Peter Burke, University of Cambridge, UK John Forrester, University of Cambridge, UK Rhodri Hayward, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Katharine Hodgkin, University of East London, UK Elizabeth Lunbeck, Vanderbilt University, USA Laura Marcus, Oxford University, UK Luisa Passerini, University of Turin, Italy Adam Phillips, psychoanalyst and writer Alex Potts, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Lyndal Roper, Oxford University, UK Michael Roper, University of Essex, UK Michael S. Roth, Wesleyan University, USA Pamela Thurschwell, University of Sussex, UK

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