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Book SynopsisHistory Flows through Us introduces a new dialogue between leading historians and psychoanalysts and provides essential insights into the nature of historical trauma. The contributors German historians, historians of the Holocaust and psychoanalysts of different disciplinary backgrounds address the synergy between history and psychoanalysis in an engaging and accessible manner. Together they develop a response to German history and the Holocaust that is future-oriented and timely in the presence of today's ethnic hatreds. In the process, they help us to appreciate the emotional and political legacy of history's collective crimes.
This book illustrates how history and the psyche shape one another and the degree to which history flows through all of us as human beings. Its innovative cross-disciplinary approach draws on the work of the historian and psychoanalyst Thomas Kohut. The volume includes an extended dialogue with Kohut in which he reflects on the study
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"History Flows Through Us offers an array of essays by a distinguished group of historians and psychoanalysts that will be important for future studies of trauma, the Holocaust, and other instances of extreme violence in both history and personal life. It offers interacting ways of attempting to understand the past as accurately and compassionately as possible while also entering into critical dialogue with voices that continue to haunt the present. Roger Frie’s concluding, thought-provoking exchange with Thomas Kohut on history and psychoanalysis is one among many outstanding features of the book."-Dominick LaCapra, Professor Emeritus of History and of Comparative Literature, Bowmar Professor Emeritus of Humanistic Studies, Cornell University
"This book is a beautiful tribute to the imaginative oeuvre of the historian-psychoanalyst Thomas Kohut. The authors gathered here offer a wealth of marvelously fresh, provocative and crucial critical insights into the workings of memory and history alike."-Dagmar Herzog, author of Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes
"Roger Frie's wide-ranging volume addresses the German and Jewish pasts from historical, psychoanalytic and philosophical perspectives. In doing so, readers are introduced to cutting-edge research on memory, transference, trauma and emotions as they pertain to the study of mass violence in the twentieth century. The book is a most welcome reminder that the disciplines of history and psychology can benefit from a closer dialogue."-Anthony D. Kauders, Reader in Modern European History, Keele University
Table of ContentsHistorical Trauma and Lived Experience: An Introduction Roger Frie I. Remembering the Past 1. From Psychohistory to Memory Studies: Or how some Germans became Jews and some Jews became Nazis Alon Confino 2. "Memory" and its Discontents Dorothee Wierling II. Responding to the Past 3. Experiential History: Understanding Backwards Donna M. Orange 4. "Unprecedented": Concepts and Narratives about Mass Violence and the Holocaust Alexandra Garbarini 5. Transmitting Hate: On the Process of Hating and Being Hated Jörg Bose III: Confronting the Past 6. The Stowaway: Reality, the Holocaust and the Historical Unconscious Robert Prince 7. National Nightmare: The Legacy of Perpetrator Trauma M. Gerard Fromm 8. Not as One Would Like to Imagine: Psychoanalysis During and After the Third Reich Emily Kuriloff IV: Bridging Psychoanalysis and History 9. Psyche and History: Wilhelm II and his Role in German Politics Reconsidered Ute Daniel 10. Fathers and Sons: The Kohut Odyssey Geoffrey Cocks 11. Psychoanalysis and History at the Crossroads: A Dialogue with Thomas Kohut Roger Frie
