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Fantasy and reality in history / Peter Loewenberg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 235 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1429406348
  • 9781429406345
  • 019536189X
  • 9780195361896
  • 9780195067637
  • 0195067630
  • 1280525509
  • 9781280525506
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fantasy and reality in history.DDC classification:
  • 901 22
LOC classification:
  • D16.16 .L65 1995eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Why social science needs psychoanalysis: from Weber to Freud -- The pagan Freud -- Sigmund Freud's psychosocial identity -- The creation of a scientific community: the Burghölzi, 1902-1914 -- Gladstone, sin, and the Bulgarian horrors -- The murder and mythification of Walter Rathenau -- Karl Renner and the politics of accommodation: moderation versus revenge -- The inner world of Vladimir Zhirinovsky: the self-presentation of a "hero" -- Anxiety in history -- Racism in comparative historical perspective -- The psychodynamics of nationalism -- Crisis management: from therapy to government and from the Oval Office to the couch.
Summary: Successfully integrating history, political psychology, and psychoanalysis, Fantasy and Reality in History studies individual and social anxiety, crisis management, racism and nationalism. By blending clinical and historico-political methods, Loewenberg examines the psycho-sexual conflicts of several charismatic political leaders, including, among others, Gladstone, and Zhirinovsky, Russia's contemporary fascist.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why social science needs psychoanalysis: from Weber to Freud -- The pagan Freud -- Sigmund Freud's psychosocial identity -- The creation of a scientific community: the Burghölzi, 1902-1914 -- Gladstone, sin, and the Bulgarian horrors -- The murder and mythification of Walter Rathenau -- Karl Renner and the politics of accommodation: moderation versus revenge -- The inner world of Vladimir Zhirinovsky: the self-presentation of a "hero" -- Anxiety in history -- Racism in comparative historical perspective -- The psychodynamics of nationalism -- Crisis management: from therapy to government and from the Oval Office to the couch.

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Successfully integrating history, political psychology, and psychoanalysis, Fantasy and Reality in History studies individual and social anxiety, crisis management, racism and nationalism. By blending clinical and historico-political methods, Loewenberg examines the psycho-sexual conflicts of several charismatic political leaders, including, among others, Gladstone, and Zhirinovsky, Russia's contemporary fascist.

English.

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