Presenting the Past : : Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Misremembering / / Jeffrey Prager.

• VerfasserIn: Prager, Jeffrey,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Psychology is the dogma of our age; psychotherapy is our means of self-understanding; and "repressed memory" is now a universally familiar form of trauma. Jeffrey Prager, who is both a sociologist and a psychoanalyst, explores the degree to which we manifest the clichés of our culture in o...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Ms. A. and the Problem of Misremembering
• 2. Memory’s Contexts
• 3. Memory, Culture, and the Self
• 4. Trauma and the Memory Wars
• 5. Toward an Intersubjective Science of Memory
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index