Freud for Historians (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780195042283)

Is psychoanalysis a legitimate tool for helping us understand the past? Many traditional historians have answered with an emphatic no, greeting the introduction of Freud into historical study with responses ranging from condescending skepticism to outrage. Now Peter Gay, one of America's leading historians, builds an eloquent case for "history informed by psychoanalysis" and offers an impressive rebuttal to the charges of the profession's anti-Freudians.

In this book, Gay takes on the opposition's arguments, defending psychoanalysis as a discipline that can enhance social, economic, and literary studies. No mere polemic, Freud for Historians is a thoughtful and detailed contribution to a major intellectual debate.

Author: Peter Gay
ISBN-10: 019504228X
ISBN-13: 9780195042283
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 12/18/1986
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.60w x 0.70d