Physical Description
xviii, 300 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
On psychohistory : a statement on method
Psychoanalysis and history : the scope of the problem
Psychohistory : an overview of the field
The education of a psychohistorian
Emotional problems of graduate education
The graduate years : what kind of passage?
Love and hate in the academy
The psychobiographical background to psychohistory : the Langer family and the dynamics of shame and success
Austrian portraits : identity, murder, and vacillation
Theodor Herzl : nationalism and politics
Victor and Friedrich Adler : revolutionary politics and generational conflict in Austro-Marxism
Austro-Marxism and revolution : Otto Bauer, Freud's "Dora" case, and the crises of the First Austrian Republic
The German case : leaders, followers, and group process
The unsuccessful adolescence of Heinrich Himmler
The psychohistorical origins of the Nazi youth cohort.
ISBN
0520052447
9780520052444 (pbk.)
Notes
Includes bibliographies and index.
On psychohistory : a statement on method -- Psychoanalysis and history : the scope of the problem -- Psychohistory : an overview of the field -- The education of a psychohistorian -- Emotional problems of graduate education -- The graduate years : what kind of passage? -- Love and hate in the academy -- The psychobiographical background to psychohistory : the Langer family and the dynamics of shame and success -- Austrian portraits : identity, murder, and vacillation -- Theodor Herzl : nationalism and politics -- Victor and Friedrich Adler : revolutionary politics and generational conflict in Austro-Marxism -- Austro-Marxism and revolution : Otto Bauer, Freud's "Dora" case, and the crises of the First Austrian Republic -- The German case : leaders, followers, and group process -- The unsuccessful adolescence of Heinrich Himmler -- The psychohistorical origins of the Nazi youth cohort.
