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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778813603321

Titolo

Dark traces of the past [[electronic resource] ] : psychoanalysis and historical thinking / / edited by Jürgen Straub and Jörn Rüsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2010

ISBN

1-283-37564-8

9786613375643

1-84545-399-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Making sense of history ; ; v. 14

Classificazione

CU 2000

Altri autori (Persone)

StraubJürgen <1958->

RüsenJörn

Disciplina

150.19/5

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

History - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Psychoanalysis, history and historical studies : a systematic introduction / Jürgen Straub -- Three memory anchors : affect, symbol, trauma / Alaida Assmann -- Origin and ritualisation of historical awareness : a group analytic view and an ethnohermeneutic case reconstruction / Hans Bosse -- Identity, overvaluation and re-presentating forgetting / Hinderk M. Emrich -- Transgenerational trauma, identification and historical consciousness / Werner Bohleber -- On the myth of objective research after Auschwitz : unconscious entanglements with the national socialist past in the investigation of long-term psychosocial consequences of the Shoah in the Federal Republic of Germany / Kurt Grunberg -- Understanding transgenerational transmission : the burden of history in families of Jewish victims and their national socialist perpetrators / Jürgen Straub -- On social and psychological foundations of anti-semitism / Karola Brede -- From religious fantasies of omnipotence to scientific myths of emancipation : Freud and the dialectics of psychohistory / Jose Brunner -- Working towards a discourse of shame : (working with shame discourse)--a psychoanalytical perspective on postwar German literary criticism / Irmgard Wagner.



Sommario/riassunto

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. Emp