Freud for Historians (Paperback, New ed)

Is psychoanalysis a legitimate tool for helping us understand the past? Many traditional historians have answered with an emphatic no, greeting the introduction of Freud into historical study with responses ranging from condescending skepticism to outrage. Now Peter Gay, one of America's leading historians, builds an eloquent case for "history informed by psychoanalysis" and offers an impressive rebuttal to the charges of the profession's anti-Freudians.
In this book, Gay takes on the opposition's arguments, defending psychoanalysis as a discipline that can enhance social, economic, and literary studies. No mere polemic, Freud for Historians is a thoughtful and detailed contribution to a major intellectual debate.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 1987
First published:	December 1986
Authors:	Peter Gay
Dimensions:	203 x 135 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-504228-3
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > General Books > History > Theory & methods > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-504228-X
Barcode:	9780195042283

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