History and Psychoanalysis in the Columbus Centre

The Meaning of Evil
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-367-18636-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Modern History

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.

The Columbus Centre, a remarkable though largely forgotten research institute, was established at the University of Sussex in 1966, triggered by claims of a dearth of academic research about Nazism and the Holocaust. Its basic stated aim was to bring together psychoanalysis and history for a scholarly investigation of discrimination, mass violence, and the preconditions of genocide in the past and the present. The Nazi crimes were studied along with other instances of prejudice and mass violence, such as sixteenth- and seventeenth-century witch-hunts, South African apartheid, the persecution of the Roma people, and race relations in the United States and modern-day Britain. The book seeks to place the Columbus Centre in the historiography of mass violence by analysing the Centre’s works through four historiographical prisms or power relations in which they were produced: psychoanalysis, class, race, and gender.

This interdisciplinary volume is a valuable text for scholars and students of historiography, psychoanalysis, genocide and violence, and postwar Europe, and for professionals within the field of psychology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Karydaki, Danae

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.