Freud for Historians

Author/creator Gay, Peter Author
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Description272 p. 08.000 x 05.380 in.
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Summary Annotation 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 responses ranging from condescending skepticism to outrage. Now Peter Gay, one of America'sleading historians, builds an eloquent case for "history informed by psychoanalysis" and offers an impressive rebuttal to the charges of the profession's anti-Freudians. In this book, Gay takes on the opposition's arguments, defending psychoanalysis as a discipline that can enhance social, economic, and literary studies. No mere polemic, Freud for Historians is a thoughtful and detailed contribution to a major intellectual debate.
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LCCN 85010665
ISBN9780195042283
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