Decoding the Past

The Psychohistorical Approach

Peter Loewenberg (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

330 Seiten

1996 | 2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-56000-846-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Peter Loewenberg

On Psychohistory; I: Psychoanalysis and History; Psychohistory; II: The Education of a Psychohistorian; Emotional Problems of Graduate Education; The Graduate Years; Love and Hate in the Academy; The Psychobiographical Background to Psychohistory; III: Austrian Portraits; Theodor Herzl; Victor and Friedrich Adler; Austro-Marxism and Revolution; IV: The German Case; The Unsuccessful Adolescence of Heinrich Himmler; The Psychohistorical Origins of the Nazi Youth Cohort

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.1.1996
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
ISBN-10	1-56000-846-6 / 1560008466
ISBN-13	978-1-56000-846-0 / 9781560008460
Zustand	Neuware