Dark Traces of the Past: Psychoanalysis and Historical Thinking

Published by Berghahn Books 2010

Dark Traces of the Past

Psychoanalysis and Historical Thinking

Edited by: Jürgen Straub and Jörn Rüsen

Volume 14 in the series Making Sense of History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845453992

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The relationship between historical studies and psychoanalysis remains an open debate that is full of tension, in both a positive and a negative sense. In particular, the following question has not been answered satisfactorily: what distinguishes a psychoanalytically oriented study of historical realities from a historical psychoanalysis? Skepticism and fear of collaboration dominate on both sides. Initiating a productive dialogue between historical studies and psychoanalysis seems to be plagued by ignorance and, at times, a sense of helplessness. Interdisciplinary collaborations are rare. Empirical research, formulation of theory, and the development of methods are essentially carried out within the conventional disciplinary boundaries. This volume undertakes to overcome these limitations by combining psychoanalytical and historical perspectives and thus exploring the underlying “unconscious” dimensions and by informing academic and nonacademic forms of historical memory. Moreover, it puts special emphasis on transgenerational forms of remembrance, on the notion of trauma as a key concept in this field, and on case studies that point the way to further research.

Author / Editor information

Jürgen Straub is Professor of Psychology at the University of Chemnitz. He was research director and member of the management committee at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Essen (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, KWI) from October 1999 to September 2001. Beginning in April 2004, he will lead the research group Intercultural Communication – Intercultural Competence at the KWI. His research topics include the psychology of cultural practices, methodology of qualitative research, and historical consciousness.

Jörn Rüsen was President of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Institut in Essen (Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at Essen) and is now Senior Fellow there and Professor emeritus of History and Historical Culture at the University of Witten-Herdecke.

Jürgen Straub is Professor of Psychology at the University of Chemnitz. He was research director and member of the management committee at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Essen (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, KWI) from October 1999 to September 2001. Beginning in April 2004, he will lead the research group Intercultural Communication – Intercultural Competence at the KWI. His research topics include the psychology of cultural practices, methodology of qualitative research, and historical consciousness.

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“Contrary to the functions ordinarily focused upon, Dark Traces of the Pastopens a considerably expanded scope of functions for psychoanalytically oriented historical studies, designating potentials of psychoanalysis that historical research and historiography will not be able to ignore at length without disadvantage.” · SirReadaLot

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface to the Series Jörn Rüsen Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Psychoanalysis, History, and Historical Studies A Systematic Introduction Jürgen Straub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. The Construction of Memory and Historical Consciousness
Chapter 1. Three Memory Anchors Affect, Symbol, Trauma Aleida Assmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter 2. Origin and Ritualization of Historical Awareness A Group Analytic View and an Ethnohermeneutic Case Reconstruction Hans Bosse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Chapter 3. Identity, Overvaluation and Representing Forgetting Hinderk M. Emrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Part II. Shoah
Chapter 4. Transgenerational Trauma, Identification, and Historical Consciousness Werner Bohleber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Chapter 5. On the Myth of Objective Research after Auschwitz Unconscious Entanglements with the National Socialist Past in the Investigation of Long-Term Psychosocial Consequences of the Shoah in the Federal Republic of Germany Kurt Grünberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Chapter 6. Understanding Transgenerational Transmission The Burden of History in Families of Jewish Victims and their National Socialist Victimizers Jürgen Straub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Part III. Case Studies in Psychoanalysis and Literary Critics
Chapter 7. On Social and Psychological Foundations of Anti-Semitism Karola Brede Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Chapter 8. From Religious Fantasies of Omnipotence to Scientific Myths of Emancipation Freud and the Dialectics of Psychohistory José Brunner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Chapter 9. Working toward a Discourse of Shame A Psychoanalytical Perspective on Postwar German Literary Criticism Irmgard Wagner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
Notes on the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Keywords: History (General); Sociology

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Published: December 1, 2011
ISBN: 9781845453992