History On The Couch: Essays In History And Psychoanalysis

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About the AuthorJoy Damousi is an associate professor of history at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of The Labour of Loss: Memory, Mourning and Wartime Bereavement and Living with the Aftermath: Grief Trauma, and Nostalgia. Robert Reynolds is a postdoctoral fellow of education at the University of Sydney and a graduate of Melbourne University. He is the author of From Camp to Queer: Remaking the Australian Homosexual.Product DescriptionBridging the academic gap between psychoanalysis and history, this collection of essays and case studies offers an empirical and methodological challenge to accepted understandings of identity, nationalism, and gender. Contributors including Judith Brett, Marilyn Lake, John Rickard, and James Walter use the lens of psychoanalysis in their considerations of such topics as the holocaust, prisoner-of-war experiences, gay identity, crises in the Balkans and Ireland, and national identity in Australia. The interdisciplinary scope of the writing offers new insight into existing debates on using psychoanalysis to heal trauma and understand the unconscious.