{"product_id":"freud-for-historians","title":"Freud for Historians","description":"\u003cp\u003eIs psychoanalysis a legitimate tool for helping us understand the past?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany traditional historians have answered with an emphatic no, greeting the introduction of Freud into historical study with responses ranging from condescending scepticism to outrage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow Peter Gay, one of America's leading historians, builds an eloquent case for \"history informed by psychoanalysis\" and offers an impressive rebuttal to the charges of the profession's anti-Freudians. In this book, Gay takes on the opposition's arguments, defending psychoanalysis as a discipline that can enhance social, economic, and literary studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo mere polemic, Freud for Historians is a thoughtful and detailed contribution to a major intellectual debate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Gay is one of those rare academics whose competence in psychoanalysis is hardly less than his expertise in historical research.\"--The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An impassioned, compelling argument for the utility of the psychoanalytic perspective to inform historical studies.\"--Library Journal \"Incisive, persuasive, a delight to read...[It] should spark wide controversy for a long time to come.\"--Los Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Gay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43385062654121,"sku":"9780195035865","price":16.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9780195035865.jpg?v=1699585084","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/freud-for-historians","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}