Cold War Freud : psychoanalysis in an age of catastrophes / Dagmar Herzog (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
No one has been able to explain why psychoanalysis was such a powerful emotional and intellectual framework in the Cold War decades - or how it could serve both conservative and subversive ends. In part, the reasons lie in radical revisions to understandings of human nature in the wake of Nazism and...
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| Main Authors: | Herzog, Dagmar, 1961- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017 |
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| Summary: | No one has been able to explain why psychoanalysis was such a powerful emotional and intellectual framework in the Cold War decades - or how it could serve both conservative and subversive ends. In part, the reasons lie in radical revisions to understandings of human nature in the wake of Nazism and the Holocaust. Yet the ascendance of psychoanalysis also involved the new challenges brought by the Vietnam War, the sexual revolution, the new Latin American dictatorships and the emergence of postcolonial cultures. 0In 'Cold War Freud', Dagmar Herzog sheds new light on the impact of these epochal transformations on theories of aggression, desire and trauma, and on the tensions between psychoanalysis' possibilities as a theory of human nature and as a toolbox for cultural criticism. She recovers psychoanalysis at its historic zenith and restores it to its place as an essential part of twentieth-century social and intellectual history Introduction -- The libido wars -- Homophobia's durability and the reinvention of psychoanalysis -- Post-Holocaust antisemitism and the ascent of PTSD -- The struggle between eros and death -- Exploding Oedipus -- Ethnopsychoanalysis in the era of decolonization -- Afterword |
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| Item Description: | Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Physical Description: | viii, 311 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781107072398 1107072395 9781107420878 |
