Required Reading
Freud, “Thoughts for the Times on War and
Death” (1915), on-line.
Adam Phillips, "Bombs Away," History Workshop Journal 45 (spring 1998), available electronically via the library's on-line full-text journals page.
Michael Roper,
“Between Manliness and Masculinity: The ‘War Generation’ and the Psychology of
Fear in
Britain
, 1914-1950,” Journal of British Studies 44:2 (2005), 343-362; available on-line.
Klaus Theweleit, Male Fantasies (1987),
vol. 1, foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich and pp. 385-421; vol. 2, foreword by Anson Rabinbach and Jessica Benjamin, pp. 197-225; selections on e-reserves [appears as four separate selections. One is listed under author Ehrenreich; another under authors "Benjamin and Rabinbach"; then there's one called "Contamination of the body's peripheral areas" and one "male bodies and the white terror."]
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*added after class: two articles that discuss Theweleit's interpretation:
Andrew Donson, "Why did German Youths become Fascists? Nationalist Males born between 1900 and 1908 in War and Revolution," Social History 31 (2006).
Dagmar Herzog, "'Pleasure, Sex, and Politics belong together': Post-Holocaust Memory and the Sexual Revolution in West Germany," Critical Inquiry 24:2 (1998).
Further Bibliography
Joanna Bourke, An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth-Century Warfare (1999).
Daniel Boyarin, "Freud's Baby, Fliess's Maybe: Homophobia, Anti-semitism, and the Invention of Oedipus," GLQ 2 (1995).
Fritz Breithaupt, "The Invention of Trauma in German Romanticism," Critical Inquiry 32:1 (autumn 2005).
Cathy Caruth, ed., Trauma: Explorations in Memory (1995).
Shoshona Felman and Dori Laub, Testimony: Crises
of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and
History (1991).
Journal of Contemporary History 35:1 (Jan. 2000), special issue on "Shell Shock."
Journal of the History of Sexuality 11:1-2 (Jan.-April 2002), special issue on "Sexuality and German Fascism."
Michael Kater, Hitler Youth (2004).
Andreas Killen, "From Shock to Schreck: Psychiatrists, Telephone Operators, and Traumatic Neurosis in Germany, 1900-1926,"
Journal of Contemporary History 38 (2003), 201-220.
Paul Lerner, "Hysterical Cures: Hypnosis, Gender, and Performance in World War I and Weimar Germany," History Workshop Journal 45 (spring 1998), 79-101.
Peter Loewenberg, Decoding the Past: the Psychohistorical Approach, especially part III "Austrian portraits" and part IV "the German case" (1983; 1996). Manyof these chapters first appeared as articles, see, for instance: Loewenberg, "The Unsuccessful Adolescence of Heinrich Himmler," American Historical Review 76:3 (June 1971), 612-641 and "Psychohistorical Perspectives on Modern German History," Journal of Modern History 47:2 (June 1975), 229-279.
Nick Midgley, “Anna
Freud: The Hampstead War Nurseries and the Role of the Direct Observation of
Children for Psychoanalysis,” International Journal of Psychoanalysis 88
(2007), 939-959; IUCAT does include a link to this as an "e-journal" though it doesn't show up when one searches in the "online full-text journals" page. [The photos in this article are especially compelling.]
Luisa Passerini, ed., Memory and Totalitarianism (1992).
Denise Riley, "War in the Nursery," Feminist Review 2 (1979), 82-108--she developed this argument more fully in a book by the same title.
Mark Seltzer, "Wound Culture: Trauma in the Pathological Public Sphere," October 75 (winter 1996), 36-59.
Klaus Theweleit, "Playstation Cordoba, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, etc. A War Model," (two part article, translated by Thomas Pepper), Cultural Critique 54 (spring 2003), 1-25 and Cultural Critique 55 (autumn 2003), 1-34.
World War One Document Archive Imperial War Museum Médiathèque, French Defense Ministry
Freud abstracts
American Psychoanalytic Association
No Subject (aka wiki-Lacan) Psychology+Marxism
International Psychoanalytical Association
Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing
Psychoanalysis Arena (Routledge)
Anna Freud Centre Freud Museum
IUB Libraries JSTOR
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