History and Psyche Culture, Psychoanalysis, and the Past

by Alexander, Sally; Taylor, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780230113367
• ISBN10: 0230113362
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-12-11
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The relationship between psychoanalysis and history is long-standing, productive and controversial. From Freud onward, psychoanalytic thinkers have looked to history for insights into the operations of the human mind. Historians have been more equivocal about the value of psychoanalysis for their discipline. But recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, in essays by sixteen leading scholars. Topics explored include Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity.

Author Biography

Barbara Taylor is a professor of Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London. Her publications include Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (2003), Women, Gender and Enlightenment, ed. with Sarah Knott (2005), On Kindness (co-written with Adam Phillips, 2009). She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the editorial collective of History Workshop Journal.

Sally Alexander is an emeritus professor of Modern History at Goldsmiths University of London, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a founder editor of History Workshop Journal. Her publications include Becoming a Woman, Essays in 19th and 20thc Feminist History (1995); Women's Voices from the Spanish Civil War, ed. with Jim Fyrth, (1991; reprint 2008); 'Generational Memory', Oral History Review, October 2009; 'Memory-talk: London Childhoods', in S. Radstone, B. Schwarz eds., Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates (2010).

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