Decoding the Past. The Psychohistorical Approach. Peter Loewenberg. With a new Introduction by the Author.

Loewenberg, Peter:

ISBN 10: 1560008466 / ISBN 13: 9781560008460

Published by Transaction Publishers; New Brunswick and London, 1996

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XXVIII; 300 S.; 23 cm; kart. Gutes Exemplar. - Englisch. - Peter Jacob Loewenberg (geboren 14. August 1933 in Hamburg) ist ein US-amerikanischer Historiker und Psychoanalytiker. . (wiki) // In Decoding the Past, Peter Loewenberg has collected eleven of his brilliant essays on psychohistory, a discipline that has emerged from the synthesis of traditional historical analysis and clinical psychoanalysis. He surveys this relatively new field - its methods and its problems - to show the special contributions that psychoanalysis can make to history. He then further explores the psychohistorical method by applying it to studies of personality, cultures, groups, and mass movements, demonstrating that psychohistory offers one of the most powerful of interpretive approaches to history. Decoding the Past Is an impressive study that demonstrates the range of Loewenberg's own work in history and psychoanalysis and the full promise of an Important and innovative methodology for others. His new essay takes up many of the criticisms and concerns raised about the method of psychohistory. and offers a cogent defense for its continued usage. . (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Introduction to the Transaction Edition ---- Preface ---- Acknowledgments ---- On Psychohistory: A Statement on Method ---- PART I ---- Psychoanalysis and History: The Scope of the Problem ---- Psychohistory: An Overview of the Field ---- PART II ---- The Education of a Psychohistorian ---- Emotional Problems of Graduate Education ---- The Graduate Years: What Kind of Passage? ---- Love and Hate in the Academy ---- The Psychobiographical Background to Psychohistory: ---- The Longer Family and the Dynamics of Shame and Success ---- PART III ---- Austrian Portraits: Identity, Murder, and Vacillation ---- Theodor Herzl: Nationalism and Politics ---- Victor and Friedrich Adler: Revolutionary Politics and Generational Conflict in Austro-Marxism ---- Austro-Marxism and Revolution: Otto Bauer, Freud's "Dora " Case, and the Crises of the First Austrian Republic ---- PART IV ---- The German Case: Leaders, Followers, and Group Process ---- The Unsuccessful Adolescence of Heinrich Himmler ---- The Psychohistorical Origins of the Nazi Youth Cohort ---- Index. ISBN 1560008466 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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• Title: Decoding the Past. The Psychohistorical Approach. Peter Loewenberg. With a new Introduction by the Author.
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers; New Brunswick and London
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1560008466
• ISBN 13: 9781560008460
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 550 grams
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In Decoding the Past, Peter Loewenberg has collected eleven of his brilliant essays on psychohistory, a discipline that has emerged from the synthesis of traditional historical analysis and clinical psychoanalysis. He surveys this relatively new field―its methods and its problems―to show the special contributions that psychoanalysis can make to history. He then further explores the psychohistorical method by applying it to studies of personality, cultures, groups, and mass movements, demonstrating that psychohistory offers one of the most powerful of interpretive approaches to history.

Decoding the Past is an impressive study that demonstrates the range of Loewenberg's own work in history and psychoanalysis and the full promise of an important and innovative methodology for others. His new essay takes up many of the criticisms and concerns raised about the method of psychohistory, and offers a cogent defense for its continued usage.

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Peter Loewenberg