Psychoanalysis and History by Brian Connolly PAPERBACK 9781478017349

Psychoanalysis and History\nby Brian Connolly\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Brian Connolly\nTitle: Psychoanalysis and History\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History\nPublisher: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9781478017349\nISBN-10: 1478017341\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe relationship between history and psychoanalysis has long been contentious, starting with Freud's ambivalence toward history, with some declaring the two fields to be largely incommensurable. The contributors to this special issue rethink this complicated dynamic, demonstrating both the uses of psychoanalysis for interrogating historical narratives and the importance of history for psychoanalytic analysis. Essays address how psychoanalysis reframes the ways historians have represented the Holoca.