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The Annual of Psychoanalysis, V. 31 - Psychoanalysis and History (Paperback)
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The Annual of Psychoanalysis, V. 31 - Psychoanalysis and History (Paperback)
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In 1958 William L. Langer, in a well-known presidential address to
the American Historical Association, declared the informed use of
psychoanalytic depth psychology as "the next assignment" for
professional historians. Psychoanalysis and History, volume 31 of
The Annual of Psychoanalysis, examines the degree to which Langer's
directive has been realized in the intervening 45 years. Section I
makes the case for psychobiography in the lives of historical
figures and exemplifies this perspective with analytically informed
studies of the art of Wassily Kandinsky; the films of Stanley
Kubrick; and the anti-Semitism of Adolf Hitler. Section II reviews
Freud's own psychohistorical contributions and then considers the
relevance to historical inquiry of the more recent perspectives of
Winnicott, Kernberg, and Kohut. Section III explores an intriguing
tributary of psychobiographical inquiry: the impact of the
biographer's own subjectivity on his or her work. Section IV turns
to a topic of perennial interest: the psychobiographical study of
American presidents. Section V turns to the special challenges of
applying psychoanalysis to topics of religious history and includes
topical studies of religious figures as disparate as the 15th
century Asian Drukpa Kunley and Osama bin Laden. Section VI focuses
on the recent extension of psychohistorical inquiry to groups of
people and to cultural phenomena more generally: an investigation
of the youth movement in pre-Nazi Germany; consideration of how
societies, no less than individuals, reenact and work through
traumas over time; and an outline of the role of analysis in
constructing a depth-psychological "social psychology" of use to
historians. These papers, no less than those that precede them, are
compelling testimony to the claim with which editors James William
Anderson and Jerome A. Winer begin the volume, to wit, that
"Psychoanalysis would seem to be a resource indispensable to the
study of history."
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