Enactments: American Modes and Psychohistorical Models

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1996 - History - 356 pages
Enactments 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.

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Contents

Splitting and Fragmentation of GroupFantasy after Reagan
45
From Oily War to Holy War GroupFantasy and the Satanic Savior during the Persian Gulf War
55
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
Bibliography
338
Index
353
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