History and Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis, and the Past

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
The Psychoanalytic Corner: Notes on a Conversation with Peter Gay....Pages 13-26
Freud, Fin-de-siècle Politics, and the Making of Psychoanalysis....Pages 27-47
The Narcissistic Homosexual: Genealogy of a Myth....Pages 49-67
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
The English Freud: W. H. R. Rivers, Dreaming, and the Making of the Early Twentieth-Century Human Sciences....Pages 71-104
European Witness: Analysands Abroad in the 1920s and 1930s....Pages 105-127
Beyond Containing: World War I and the Psychoanalytic Theories of Wilfred Bion....Pages 129-147
Primary Maternal Preoccupation: D. W. Winnicott and Social Democracy in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain....Pages 149-172
Freud’s Stepchild: Adolescent Subjectivity and Psychoanalysis....Pages 173-192
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Historical Subjectivity....Pages 195-210
Keeping Our Distance....Pages 211-217
The Seven-Headed Monster: Luther and Psychology....Pages 219-240
Elizabeth Isham’s Everlasting Library: Memory and Self in Early Modern Autobiography....Pages 241-264
Postwar Art and the Psychoanalytic Imaginary....Pages 265-281
The Pursuit of Serenity: Psychological Knowledge and the Making of the British Welfare State....Pages 283-304
An Eclectic Ego-Histoire ....Pages 305-324
Afterword....Pages 325-332
Back Matter....Pages 333-347