Freud for Historians

Name: Freud for Historians
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ISBN: 9780195042283

ISBN-10: 019504228X

ISBN-13: 9780195042283

Edition: 1985

Authors: Peter Gay

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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 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…

Book details

List price: $43.99
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/18/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.39" wide x 7.99" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Peter Gay lives in New York City and Connecticut.



Preface


List of Abbreviations


The Argument: Defenses Against Psychoanalysis



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


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index