Decoding the Past: The Psychohistorical Approach
by Loewenberg,PeterFormat: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 1996-01-31
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
In Decoding the Past, Peter Loewenberg has collected eleven of his brilliant essays on psychohistory, a discipline that has emerged from the synthesis of traditional historical analysis and clinical psychoanalysis. He surveys this relatively new fi eld-its methods and its problems-to show the special contributions that psychoanalysis can make to history. He then further explores the psychohistorical method by applying it to studies of personality, cultures, groups, and mass movements, demonstrating that psychohistory offers one of the most powerful of interpretive approaches to history.
Author Biography
Peter Loewenberg is professor of history and political psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Table of Contents
| Introduction to the Transaction Edition | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| On Psychohistory: A Statement on Method | p. 3 |
| Psychoanalysis and History: The Scope of the Problem | p. 9 |
| Psychohistory: An Overview of the Field | p. 14 |
| The Education of a Psychohistorian | p. 43 |
| Emotional Problems of Graduate Education | p. 48 |
| The Graduate Years: What Kind of Passage? | p. 59 |
| Love and Hate in the Academy | p. 67 |
| The Psychobiographical Background to Psychohistory: The Langer Family and the Dynamics of Shame and Succes | p. 81 |
| Austrian Portraits: Identity, Murder, and Vacillation | p. 97 |
| Theodor Herzl: Nationalism and Politics | p. 101 |
| Victor and Friedrich Adler: Revolutionary Politics and Generational Conflict in Austro-Marxism | p. 136 |
| Austro-Marxism and Revolution: Otto Bauer, Freud's "Dora" Case, and the Crises of the First Austrian Republic | p. 161 |
| The German Case: Leaders, Followers, and Group Process | p. 205 |
| The Unsuccessful Adolescence of Heinrich Himmler | p. 209 |
| The Psychohistorical Origins of the Nazi Youth Cohort | p. 240 |
| Index | p. 285 |
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