Michael S. Roth

Memory, Trauma, and History

Essays on Living with the Past

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In these essays, Michael S. Roth uses psychoanalysis to build a richer understanding of history, and then takes a more expansive conception of history to decode the cultural construction of memory. He first examines the development in nineteenth-century France of medical criteria for diagnosing memory disorders, which signal fundamental changes in the understanding of present and past. He next explores links between historical consciousness and issues relating to the psyche, including trauma and repression and hypnosis and therapy. Roth turns to the work of postmodern theorists in connection with the philosophy of history and then examines ph… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-231-14569-5
EAN: 9780231145695
Produktnummer: 11439566
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 336 S.
Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.7 cm 450 g
Abbildungen: 15 illus.
Gewicht: 450
Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor

Michael S. Roth is the president of Wesleyan University and the author of five books, including The Ironist's Cage: Trauma, Memory, and the Construction of History and Knowing and History: Appropriations of Hegel in Twentieth-Century France. He has also edited several books of intellectual and cultural history, and he curated an exhibition entitled Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture, which opened at the Library of Congress.