Fantasy and Reality in History

by Peter Loewenberg

Book Overview

In Fantasy and Reality in History, Peter Loewenberg brings what the discipline of psychoanalysis has learned about human conduct and the irrational to bear on the analysis and writing of history. The result is a remarkable series of studies on individual and social anxiety, racism and nationalism, and crisis management.
First examining early twentieth century Z rich and the first practitioners of psychoanalysis--Freud, C.G. Jung, Karl Abraham,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195067630
• ISBN13: 9780195067637
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"