Decoding the Past: The Psychohistorical ApproachTransaction Publishers, 1996 M01 1 - 300 pages 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. |
Contents
A Statement on Method | 3 |
Psychoanalysis and History The Scope of the Problem | 9 |
An Overview of the Field | 14 |
The Education of a Psychohistorian | 43 |
Emotional Problems of Graduate Education | 48 |
What Kind of Passage? | 59 |
Love and Hate in the Academy | 67 |
The Langer Family and the Dynamics of Shame and Success | 81 |
Nationalism and Politics | 101 |
Revolutionary Politics and Generational Conflict in AustroMarxism | 136 |
Otto Bauer Freuds Dora Case and the Crises of the First Austrian Republic | 161 |
The German Case Leaders Followers and Group Process | 205 |
The Unsuccessful Adolescence of Heinrich Himmler | 209 |
The Psychohistorical Origins of the Nazi Youth Cohort | 240 |
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Austrian Portraits Identity Murder and Vacillation | 97 |
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