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Freud for Historians

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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 reponses ranging from condescending skepticism to outrage. Now Peter Gay, one of America's leading historians, builds an eloquent case for "history informed by psychoanalysis" & offers an impressive rebuttal to the charges of the profession's anti-Freudians. This book takes on the opposition's arguments, defending psychoanalysis as a discipline that can enhance social, economic & literary studies. No mere polemic, Freud for Historians is a thoughtful & detailed contribution to a major intellectual debate.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Release: September 19, 1985

ISBN 13: 9780195042283

Freud for Historians

0/5 ( ratings)

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 reponses ranging from condescending skepticism to outrage. Now Peter Gay, one of America's leading historians, builds an eloquent case for "history informed by psychoanalysis" & offers an impressive rebuttal to the charges of the profession's anti-Freudians. This book takes on the opposition's arguments, defending psychoanalysis as a discipline that can enhance social, economic & literary studies. No mere polemic, Freud for Historians is a thoughtful & detailed contribution to a major intellectual debate.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Release: September 19, 1985

ISBN 13: 9780195042283

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