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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Herzog, Dagmar (1961-....)
Titre(s) : Cold War Freud [Texte imprimé] : psychoanalysis in an age of catastrophes / Dagmar Herzog,...
Publication : Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-311 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : 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
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
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. In
'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 ; "In Cold
War Freud Dagmar Herzog uncovers the astonishing array of concepts of human selfhood
which circulated across the globe in the aftermath of World War II. Against the backdrop
of Nazism and the Holocaust, the sexual revolution, feminism, gay rights, and anticolonial
and antiwar activism, she charts the heated battles which raged over Freud's legacy.
From the postwar US to Europe and Latin America, she reveals how competing theories
of desire, anxiety, aggression, guilt, trauma and pleasure emerged and were then transformed
to serve both conservative and subversive ends in a fundamental rethinking of the
very nature of the human self and its motivations. Her findings shed new light on
psychoanalysis' enduring contribution to the enigma of the relationship between nature
and culture, and the ways in which social contexts enter into and shape the innermost
recesses of individual psyches." -- Publisher's description
Sujet(s) : Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) -- Critique et interprétation
Psychanalyse et culture -- 1945-....
Socioanalyse
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107072398 (hardback) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1107072395 (hardback) (alk. paper)
(rel.)
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Notice n° :
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