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Franks and Saracens - Avner Falk

Franks and Saracens

A Psychoanalytic Study of the Crusades

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Buch | Softcover
196 Seiten
2024 | 2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-86385-6 (ISBN)
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Franks and Saracens is the first and only book to examine the Crusades from the viewpoint of psychoanalysis, studying the hidden emotions and fantasies that drove the Crusaders and the Muslims to undertake their terrible wars.

Using original documents as well as secondary sources, Avner Falk demonstrates that the deepest and most powerful motives for the Crusades were not only religious or territorial – or the quest for lands, wealth, or titles – but also unconscious emotions and fantasies about one's country, one's religion, one's enemies, God and the Devil, Us and Them. The book demonstrates the collective inability to mourn large-group losses, and the collective needs of large groups such as nations and religions to develop a clear identity, to have boundaries, and to have enemies and allies. Falk investigates the unconscious dynamics of the Crusades, both on the individual and on the collective level, to understand why the Crusading fantasies persisted for nearly two centuries, and why the “northern Crusades” went on until the early fifteenth century. This updated edition adds a new chapter on collective trauma both as cause and as consequence of the Crusades and has been fully revised to include literature on trauma and other psychological aspects of the Crusades.

Franks and Saracens will be of great interest to historians, political scientists, medievalists, psychologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, anthropologists, and sociologists interested in questions of conflict, fantasy, and identity, collective psychological processes, and to academics of the Crusades and military history.

Dr Avner Falk (born 1943) is an internationally known Israeli clinical psychologist and independent scholar. His scholarly specialty is applied psychoanalysis, including psychohistory, psychobiography, political psychology, and psychogeography. He has published 11 books and dozens of articles. His most recent book is Agnon’s Story: A Psychoanalytic Biography of S. Y. Agnon, the winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature (Brill 2018).

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter 1. Us And Them

Chapter 2. Romans, Germans, and Berbers

Chapter 3. Myths of Origin

Chapter 4. The Cross and the Crusades

Chapter 5. The Fantasy of the Holy Roman Empire

Chapter 6. A Short History of the “Saracens”

Chapter 7. The First Crusade: Acting Out Rescue Fantasies

Chapter 8. The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem as a Psychogeographical Fantasy

Chapter 9. The Second Crusade: Persisting Rescue Fantasies

Chapter 10. Templars And Hospitallers: Monastic Knights?

Chapter 11. The “Saracens” Look at The “Franks”

Chapter 12. The Third Crusade: A Lionheart in Search of a Holy Land?

Chapter 13. The Fourth Crusade: “Latin” Christians Kill “Greek” Christians

Chapter 14. The Fifth Crusade: An Invasion of Egypt that Predictably Fails

Chapter 15. The Sixth Crusade: Winning Jerusalem Peacefully

Chapter 16. The Seventh Crusade: The Unhappy War of “Saint Louis”

Chapter 17. The Eighth Crusade: The Tragic Death of “Saint Louis”

Chapter 18. The Ninth Crusade: End of a Two-Century Fantasy

Chapter 19. Trauma in the Crusades

Chapter 20. Aftermath: The End Of A Two-Century Fantasy

Epilogue: “The New Crusaders”

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 29.11.2024
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-032-86385-4 / 1032863854
ISBN-13 978-1-032-86385-6 / 9781032863856
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