Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes

by Dagmar Herzog

Book Overview

In Cold War Freud Dagmar Herzog uncovers the astonishing array of concepts of human selfhood which circulated across the globe in the aftermath of World War II. Against the backdrop of Nazism and the Holocaust, the sexual revolution, feminism, gay rights, and anticolonial and antiwar activism, she charts the heated battles which raged over Freud's legacy. From the postwar US to Europe and Latin America, she reveals how competing theories of desire,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107420873
• ISBN13: 9781107420878
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"