- 262 pages
- English
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Trauma, Psychoanalysis and History
About this book
Located at the crossroads of psychoanalysis and history, this book investigates the ambiguous concept of trauma and the changes to its formulation and use between the years 1866 and 1939.
Luis Sanfelippo introduces the original conceptions of trauma outlined by Sigmund Freud, Pierre Janet and their contemporaries, before investigating how the meaning of this concept was influenced and informed by large-scale historical events like the First World War. Trauma, Psychoanalysis and History investigates the multiple problems linked to this fetishised category and how it has developed over time. Sanfelippo also considers the historiographical and conceptual problems raised by the application of trauma to collective memory and contemporary history, reflecting on what this means for historiography.
Trauma, Psychoanalysis and History will be of great interest to students in training for psychotherapy and mental health practice, trained psychoanalysts, as well as academics and scholars of psychoanalytic studies, the history of psychology, trauma studies and modern history.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsement page
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Mechanical Trauma and Psychical Trauma: Railway Accidents and Hysteria (1866–1889)
- 2 Trauma and Memory: The Janet-Freud Debate, 1889–1895/1913–1914
- 3 Sexual Cause and Traumatic Testimonies: The Versions of the Neurotica and Its Abandonment (1896–1933)
- 4 The War Neuroses and a New Economic Conception of Trauma (1914–1920)
- 5 On Collective Traumas: The Persistence and Transmission of Past Experiences (1913 and 1939)
- Conclusions
- Index