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The Holocaust and the Revival of Psychological History Why did men and women in one of the best-educated countries in the Western world set out to get rid of Jews? In this book, Judith M. Hughes focuses on how historians’ efforts to grapple anew with matters of actors’ meanings, intentions, and purposes have prompted a return to psycho- analytically informed ways of thinking. Hughes makes her case with fine-grained analyses of books by Hugh Trevor- Roper, Ian Kershaw, Daniel Goldhagen, Saul Friedländer, Christopher Browning, Jan Gross, Hannah Arendt, and Gitta Sereny. All of the authors pose psychological questions; the more astute among them shed fresh light on the Holocaust – without making the past any less disturbing. Judith M. Hughes is a professor of history and an adjunct pro- fessor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. She is also on the faculty of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Institute and has a small psychoanalytic practice. She is the author of seven previous books, including To the Maginot Line: The Politics of French Military Preparation in the 1920’s; From Freud’s Consulting Room: The Unconscious in a Scientific Age; From Obstacle to Ally: The Evolution of Psychoanalytic Practice; and Guilt and Its Vicissitudes: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Morality. Also by Judith M. Hughes To the Maginot Line: The Politics of French Military Preparation in the 1920’s (1971) Emotion and High Politics: Personal Relations at the Summit in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain and Germany (1983) Reshaping the Psychoanalytic Domain: The Work of Melanie Klein, W. R. D. Fairbairn, and D. W. Winnicott (1989) From Freud’s Consulting Room: The Unconscious in a Scientific Age (1994) Freudian Analysts/Feminist Issues (1999) From Obstacle to Ally: The Evolution of Psychoanalytic Practice (2004) Guilt and Its Vicissitudes: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Morality (2008) The Holocaust and the Revival of Psychological History JudiTH M. HugHes University of California, San Diego 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013-2473, USA Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781107690448 © Judith M. Hughes 2015 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2015 Printed in the United States of America A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data Hughes, Judith M., author. The Holocaust and the revival of psychological history / Judith M. Hughes, University of California, San Diego. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-107-05682-4 (hardback) – ISBN 978-1-107-69044-8 (paperback) 1. Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945) – Historiography. 2. Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945) – Moral and ethical aspects. 3. Collective memory – Germany. I. Title. D804.348.H84 2014 940.53′180722–dc23 2014020940 ISBN 978-1-107-05682-4 Hardback ISBN 978-1-107-69044-8 Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet Web sites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Web sites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. For my students

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