By Roger Frie (Canada)
History Flows Through Us (Routledge, 2018) introduces a new dialogue between psychoanalysts and historians and provides essential insights into the nature of historical trauma and collective crime. The contributors—leading psychoanalysts, historians of the Holocaust and German historians—address the synergy between psychoanalysis and history in an engaging and accessible manner. Together they develop a response to German history and the Holocaust that is future-oriented and timely in the presence of today’s racial prejudices and ethnic hatreds. In the process, they help us to appreciate the emotional and political legacy of the Holocaust.
Reviews:
“History Flows Through Us offers an array of essays by a distinguished group of historians and psychoanalysts that will be important for future studies of trauma, the Holocaust, and other instances of extreme violence in both history and personal life. Roger Frie’s concluding, thought-provoking exchange with Thomas Kohut on history and psychoanalysis is one among many outstanding features of the book.”
– Dominick LaCapra, Professor Emeritus of History and of Comparative Literature, Bowmar Professor Emeritus of Humanistic Studies, Cornell University
“The authors gathered here offer a wealth of marvelously fresh, provocative and crucial critical insights into the workings of memory and history alike.”
– Dagmar Herzog, author of Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes
Contributors include:
Psychoanalysts:
Joerg Bose
Roger Frie
Gerard Fromm
Emily Kuriloff
Donna Orange
Robert Prince
Historians:
Geoffrey Cocks
Alon Confino
Ute Daniel
Alexandra Garbarini
Thomas Kohut
Dorothee Wierling
About the Editor:
Roger Frie is author of the award-winning book, Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility after the Holocaust (Oxford, 2017). He is Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University and Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He is also Faculty and Supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology in New York, co-editor of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context and editorial board member of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology. He writes and lectures widely on historical trauma, culture and memory and the nature of human interaction.
Roger Frie, PhD, PsyD, RPsych
Professor and Clinical Psychologist
Faculty of Education
Simon Fraser University
Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry
University of British Columbia
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Website: www.sfu.ca/education/rfrie