Freud for historians / Peter Gay.

Author
Gay, Peter, 1923-2015 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York : Oxford University Press, 1985
  • © 1985
Description
xx, 252 pages ; 22 cm

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      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 and eloquent case for "history informed by psychoanalysis" and offers an impressive rebuttal to the charges of the profession's anti-Freudians.
      Notes
      Includes index.
      Bibliographic references
      Bibliography: p. 213-237.
      Contents
      • Secret needs of the heart
      • The claims of Freud
      • Human nature in history
      • Reason, reality, psychoanalysis and the historian
      • From couch to culture
      • The program in practice.
      ISBN
      • 0195035860
      • 9780195035865
      • 019504228X
      • 9780195042283
      • 1423734483 ((electronic bk.))
      • 9781423734482 ((electronic bk.))
      LCCN
      85010665
      OCLC
      12051187
      International Article Number
      • 9780195042283
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