Enactments: American Modes and Psychohistorical ModelsEnactments introduces readers to the field of psychohistory, examines the continuous interplay of psychoanalytic process with the irrational forces that shape history, and systematizes a highly diverse field into six usable models. |
Contents
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Defining Moments in the Bush Presidency The Dynamics of the Delegate | 72 |
Themd to Death The Politics of Projective Identification and Clintons Reparative Presidency | 87 |
Watergate Figures of Speech Systems of Morality Types of Tragedy | 104 |
Enactments Hearings Trials Conferences | 131 |
Testimony of Silence The ThomasHill Hearings | 133 |
Two Turns at Au Bar The Palm Beach Rape Trial | 144 |
Foucaults Preemption of Freuds Sexual Discourse and a Return to the Repressed | 213 |
American Fantasy Mt Shasta and the Other Shasta | 223 |
A Crux in the FreudJung Letters | 231 |
GroupFantasy in the Media | 239 |
Utopia Out of Dystopia Patriarchy as Radical Feminisms PoisonContainer | 241 |
Hitler Holocaust Feedback System | 254 |
Relatively Whole Sense of Relating and Experiencing Oneself as Affected by Drives Defenses Parenting Modes | 255 |
GroupFantasy During the Early Phases of the Clinton Administration | 257 |
Enactments InBy Psychoanalysis | 149 |
Parenting Modes and Childhood Traumas | 165 |
Abandonment A Dominant Pattern in the Development of Creative Writers and Thinkers from the Seventeenth Century to the Present | 167 |
Whos Afraid of Who Killed Virginia Woolf? | 202 |
The RepressionProduction of Sexuality and Aggression | 211 |
Notes | 267 |
Glossary of Key Terms | 333 |
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