Sinopse

Is psychoanalysis a legitimate tool for helping us understand the past? Many traditional historians have answered that question with a resounding no, greeting the introduction of Freud into historical study with responses ranging from reasoned 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. Gay takes on the opposition's arguments one by one, showing them to be intelligent and understandable but nonetheless invalid. His discussion embraces a wide range of issues-from the intricacies of the Oedipus complex to the influence of self-interest on human affairs to the dangers of reductionism in the psychoanalytic method. Gay's vision of a "total history," one that uses the insights of psychoanalysis but isn't confined to them, shows how psychoanalysis can be applied to all branches of historical inquiry without displacing other interpretive approaches. No mere polemic, Freud for Historians is an elegantly written, thoughtful contribution to one of the major intellectual debates of our day. Peter Gay, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, won a National Book Award for the first book in bis acclaimed two-volume study, The Enlightenment: An lnterpretation. His other books include The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, a multi-volume study of middle-class Victorians, and Freud, ]ews and Other Germans. 

Ficha Técnica

• Condição geral: Usado em excelente estado de conservação
• Páginas: 252, suavemente amareladas pela ação do tempo, há apenas um nome num canto da folha de rosto, sem nenhuma marca ou mancha, sem rasuras nem dobras, sem riscos, grifos, sublinhamentos nem anotações.
• Miolo: Perfeito
• Capas: Excelente estado, como novas
• Lombada: Excelente, como nova
• Corte: Escurecido pela ação do tempo, com poucos pontos de oxidação e alguns de poeira
• Autor: Peter Gay
• Idioma: Inglês
• Origem: Estados Unidos
• Publicação: 1986
• ISBN: 0-19-504228-X
• Editora: Oxford Universit Press
• Acabamento: Brochura com capa comum
• Formato: 13,4 x 20,3 cm
• Peso: 264 gr
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