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.

part |38 pages

History of events/history of layers

part |33 pages

The ‘subject matter' of history

part |33 pages

Subjectivity and History: Preliminary Considerations

chapter |6 pages

Greeks and Jews

chapter |8 pages

Dreaming history

chapter |10 pages

Fragmentation and cohesion

One history or many?

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

chapter |27 pages

The now of the past

chapter |11 pages

Conclusions