Cold War Freud : psychoanalysis in an age of catastrophes / Dagmar Herzog.
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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| Language: | English |
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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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 311 pages) : illustrations |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-304) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1108113761 9781108113762 9781108114448 110811444X 9781139680455 1139680455 9781108111720 1108111726 9781107420878 1107420873 1108111041 9781108111041 1108109683 9781108109680 1108110363 9781108110365 1108105599 9781108105590 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781139680455 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |