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Dark Traces of the Past : Psychoanalysis and Historical Thinking / ed. by Jörn Rüsen, Jürgen Straub.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Making Sense of History ; 14Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2011]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845457532
  • 9781845453992
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 150.19/5 150.195 901.9
LOC classification:
  • BF175 .D35 2010
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface to the Series -- Psychoanalysis, History, and Historical Studies -- Part I. The Construction of Memory and Historical Consciousness -- Chapter 1. Three Memory Anchors -- Chapter 2. Origin and Ritualization of Historical Awareness -- Chapter 3. Identity, Overvaluation and Representing Forgetting -- Part II. Shoah -- Chapter 4. Transgenerational Trauma, Identification, and Historical Consciousness -- Chapter 5. On the Myth of Objective Research after Auschwitz -- Chapter 6. Understanding Transgenerational Transmission -- Part III. Case Studies in Psychoanalysis and Literary Critics -- Chapter 7. On Social and Psychological Foundations of Anti-Semitism -- Chapter 8. From Religious Fantasies of Omnipotence to Scientific Myths of Emancipation -- Chapter 9. Working toward a Discourse of Shame -- Bibliography -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index
Summary: The relationship between historical studies and psychoanalysis remains an open debate that is full of tension, in both a positive and a negative sense. In particular, the following question has not been answered satisfactorily: what distinguishes a psychoanalytically oriented study of historical realities from a historical psychoanalysis? Skepticism and fear of collaboration dominate on both sides. Initiating a productive dialogue between historical studies and psychoanalysis seems to be plagued by ignorance and, at times, a sense of helplessness. Interdisciplinary collaborations are rare. Empirical research, formulation of theory, and the development of methods are essentially carried out within the conventional disciplinary boundaries. This volume undertakes to overcome these limitations by combining psychoanalytical and historical perspectives and thus exploring the underlying “unconscious” dimensions and by informing academic and nonacademic forms of historical memory. Moreover, it puts special emphasis on transgenerational forms of remembrance, on the notion of trauma as a key concept in this field, and on case studies that point the way to further research.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface to the Series -- Psychoanalysis, History, and Historical Studies -- Part I. The Construction of Memory and Historical Consciousness -- Chapter 1. Three Memory Anchors -- Chapter 2. Origin and Ritualization of Historical Awareness -- Chapter 3. Identity, Overvaluation and Representing Forgetting -- Part II. Shoah -- Chapter 4. Transgenerational Trauma, Identification, and Historical Consciousness -- Chapter 5. On the Myth of Objective Research after Auschwitz -- Chapter 6. Understanding Transgenerational Transmission -- Part III. Case Studies in Psychoanalysis and Literary Critics -- Chapter 7. On Social and Psychological Foundations of Anti-Semitism -- Chapter 8. From Religious Fantasies of Omnipotence to Scientific Myths of Emancipation -- Chapter 9. Working toward a Discourse of Shame -- Bibliography -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index

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The relationship between historical studies and psychoanalysis remains an open debate that is full of tension, in both a positive and a negative sense. In particular, the following question has not been answered satisfactorily: what distinguishes a psychoanalytically oriented study of historical realities from a historical psychoanalysis? Skepticism and fear of collaboration dominate on both sides. Initiating a productive dialogue between historical studies and psychoanalysis seems to be plagued by ignorance and, at times, a sense of helplessness. Interdisciplinary collaborations are rare. Empirical research, formulation of theory, and the development of methods are essentially carried out within the conventional disciplinary boundaries. This volume undertakes to overcome these limitations by combining psychoanalytical and historical perspectives and thus exploring the underlying “unconscious” dimensions and by informing academic and nonacademic forms of historical memory. Moreover, it puts special emphasis on transgenerational forms of remembrance, on the notion of trauma as a key concept in this field, and on case studies that point the way to further research.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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