The Holocaust and the revival of psychological history

202 Pages·2015·4.607 MB·English

by  Hughes, Judith M

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
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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
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