Psychological Undercurrents of History

by Jerry S Piven Ph.D. (Editor), Henry W Lawton (Editor)

Overview

Explores fantasy and madness in history, from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, to The Holocaust, to Millennial and Apocalyptic visions.

Psychological Undercurrents of History explores the fantasies and madness of our past, how the unconscious and irrational have shaped imagination and events, and their continuing influence today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780595183791
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/01/2001
Pages:	412
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.92(d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction
Chapter 1	Charles Strozier: The Apocalyptic Guru	1
Chapter 2	David L. Miller: Chiliasm: Apocalyptic with a Thousand Faces	17
Chapter 3	Howard Stein: A Bombing in April: Culture and Disaster in the Oklahoma City Bombing	43
Chapter 4	Dan Liechty: Hasten the Apocalypse! Historical and Psychological Perspectives on the American Militia Movement	69
Chapter 5	David Lotto: Mythology and the Manhattan Project	85
Chapter 6	Rudolph Binion: Aging as Dying	110
Chapter 7	Jerry S. Piven: Religion, Pathology, and Death in Psychohistory	128
Chapter 8	Judd Grill: Eros and Death in The Realm of the Senses	150
Chapter 9	Sander J. Breiner: Children of the Holocaust	160
Chapter 10	George Victor: The Phantom Jew: From Spoiled Identity to Genocide	185
Chapter 11	Stanley Rosenman: Begriming the Unsullied: A Theme Driving Historical Action	201
Chapter 12	Mary Armstrong: The Price We Pay for Shaming Little Boys	227
Chapter 13	Ruth Dale: Karen Horney and Mildred Harnack: Sisters in Unveiling Fear of the Feminine in Nazi Germany?	237
Chapter 14	Rita Ransohoff: Men's Deeply Repressed Envy of Women's Ability to Create Life	247
Chapter 15	Chris Boyd: Uncovering Perinatal Fantasies in Hollywood Films	271
Chapter 16	Paul Ziolo: Chaos, Catastrophe and Psychohistory	289
	Addendum: by Henry W. Lawton: The Field of Psychohistory