Fantasy and Reality in History

Name: Fantasy and Reality in History
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ISBN: 9780195067637

ISBN-10: 0195067630

ISBN-13: 9780195067637

Edition: 1995

Authors: Peter Loewenberg

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Successfully integrating history, political psychology, and psychoanalysis, Fantasy and Reality in History studies individual and social anxiety, crisis management, racism and nationalism. By blending clinical and historico-political methods, Loewenberg examines the psycho-sexual conflicts of several charismatic political leaders, including, among others, Gladstone, and Zhirinovsky, Russia's contemporary fascist.

Book details

List price: $175.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/19/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.57" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.056



Introduction: On Psychohistorical Method



Psychoanalysis, Social Structure, and Culture



Why Social Science Needs Psychoanalysis: From Weber to Freud



The Pagan Freud



Sigmund Freud's Psychosocial Identity



The Creation of a Scientific Community: The Burgholzli, 1902-1914



Political Leadership and the Irrational



Gladstone, Sin, and the Bulgarian Horrors



The Murder and Mythification of Walther Rathenau



Karl Renner and the Politics of Accommodation: Moderation versus Revenge



The Inner World of Vladimir Zhirinovsky: The Self-Presentation of a "Hero"



Psychodynamics and the Social Process



Anxiety in History



Racism in Comparative Historical Perspective



The Psychodynamics of Nationalism



Crisis Management: From Therapy to Government and from the Oval Office to the Couch


Index