Dark traces of the past : psychoanalysis and historical thinking
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Dark traces of the past : psychoanalysis and historical thinking
(Making sense of history, v.14)
Berghahn Books, 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-213) and index
Contents of Works
- Three memory anchors : affect, symbol, trauma / Aleida Assmann
- Origin and ritualization of historical awareness : a group analytic view and an ethnohermeneutic case reconstruction / Hans Bosse
- Identity, overvaluation and representing 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 Grünberg
- 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 / José Brunner
- Working towards a discourse of shame : a psychoanalytical perspective on postwar German literary criticism / Irmgard Wagner
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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. Empirical research, formulation of theory, and the development of methods are essentially carried out within the conventional disciplinary boundaries. This volume undertakes to overcome these limitations by combining psychoanalytical and historical perspectives and thus exploring the underlying "unconscious" dimensions and by informing academic and nonacademic forms of historical memory. Moreover, it puts special emphasis on transgenerational forms of remembrance, on the notion of trauma as a key concept in this field, and on case studies that point the way to further research.
Table of Contents
Preface to the Series
Alon Confino
List of Figures
Introduction: Psychoanalysis, History and Historical Studies: A Systematic Introduction
Jurgen Straub
PART I: THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEMORY AND HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Chapter 1. Three Memory Anchors: Affect, Symbol, Trauma
Alaida Assmann
Chapter 2. Origin and Ritualisation of Historical Awareness: A Group Analytic View and an Ethnohermeneutic Case Reconstruction
Hans Bosse
Chapter 3. Identity, Overvaluation and Re-presentating Forgetting
Hinderk M. Emrich
PART II: SHOAH: THE CHAIN OF GENERATIONS
Chapter 4. Transgenerational Trauma, Identification and Historical Consciousness
Werner Bohleber
Chapter 5. 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
Chapter 6. Understanding Transgenerational Transmission: The Burden of History in Families of Jewish Victims and their National Socialist Perpetrators
Jurgen Straub
PART III: CASE STUDIES IN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND LITERARY CRITICS
Chapter 7. On Social and Psychological Foundations of Anti-Semitism
Karola Brede
Chapter 8. From Religious Fantasies of Omnipotence to Scientific Myths of Emancipation: Freud and the Dialectics of Psychohistory
Jose Brunner
Chapter 9. Working Towards a Discourse of Shame: (Working with Shame Discourse) - A Psychoanalytical Perspective on Postwar German Literary Criticism
Irmgard Wagner
Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index
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