History and Psychoanalysis in the Columbus Centre

ISBN-13: 9780367186364 / Twarda / 2023 / 280 str.

Greece) Karydaki Danae (Research Centre for the Humanities

Opis

This book draws on a range of key archives and oral testimonies to provide the first systematic and historical study of the origins, context, development, frustrations, inner contradictions, and legacies of the Columbus Centre.

Spis treści

Introduction: Towards the study of the scourge  1. To be an Eichmann is less rare than to be a saint: Psychoanalysis and the Columbus Centre  2. This Age of Unenlightened Despotism: Modernity, class, and the Columbus Centre  3. A Latent Possibility in all Mankind: Race, comparison, and the Columbus Centre  4. If you are looking for a witch, you are looking for a woman: Gender and the Columbus Centre.  Epilogue: A numbing inner awareness

O autorze

Danae Karydaki is a modern historian interested in psychoanalysis, gender, institutions, and post-war social history, currently working as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Thessaly, Greece and the Research Centre for the Humanities, Athens, Greece.