ABSTRACT
Clinical psychoanalysis since Freud has put reconstruction of the patient's history at the forefront of its task but in recent years, this approach has not been so prominent. This book aims to explore and re-evaluate the relationship between history and psychoanalysis.
Roger Kennedy develops new perspectives on historiography by applying psychoanalytic insight to the key issues of narrative, time and subjectivity in the construction of historical accounts. He also throws new light on the importance of history for and within psychoanalytic treatment. It is argued that human subjectivity is a major element in any historical enterprise, both the subjectivity of the historian or clinician and that of those being studied. Illustrated with clinical examples, Psychoanalysis, History and Subjectivity covers areas such as postmodernism, the nature of memory, clinical evidence and the place of trauma.
Psychoanalysis, History and Subjectivity will be of great interest both to professionals in the psychoanalytic and therapeutic fields and to historians.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |10 pages
Introduction, or swimming in the past
part |38 pages
History of events/history of layers
chapter |18 pages
Who killed President Kennedy?
chapter |18 pages
A history of the closure threat to the Cassel Hospital
part |33 pages
The ‘subject matter' of history
part |33 pages
Subjectivity and History: Preliminary Considerations
chapter |7 pages
In my end is my beginning 1
chapter |6 pages
Greeks and Jews
chapter |8 pages
Dreaming history
part |51 pages
The ‘subject matter' of history
part |51 pages
The Subjective Dimension Developed
chapter |13 pages
Subject as foundation
chapter |19 pages
The fragmented subject
chapter |17 pages
The subject of narrative
part |40 pages
History and the clinical encounter