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    Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism.Matt Ffytche & Daniel Pick (eds.) - 2016 - New York: Routledge.
    _Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism_ provides rich new insights into the history of political thought and clinical knowledge. In these chapters, internationally renowned historians and cultural theorists discuss landmark debates about the uses and abuses of ‘the talking cure’ and map the diverse psychologies and therapeutic practices that have featured in and against tyrannical, modern regimes. These essays show both how the Freudian movement responded to and was transformed by the rise of fascism and communism, the Second World War, (...)
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    The foundation of the unconscious: Schelling, Freud, and the birth of the modern psyche.Matt Ffytche - 2011 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    The unconscious, cornerstone of psychoanalysis, was a key twentieth-century concept and retains an enormous influence on psychological and cultural theory. Yet there is a surprising lack of investigation into its roots in the critical philosophy and Romantic psychology of the early nineteenth century, long before Freud. Why did the unconscious emerge as such a powerful idea? And why at that point? This interdisciplinary study breaks new ground in tracing the emergence of the unconscious through the work of philosopher Friedrich Schelling, (...)
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    Throwing the case open: The impossible subject of Luisa Passerini’s Autobiography of a Generation.Matt Ffytche - 2020 - History of the Human Sciences 33 (3-4):33-46.
    For John Forrester, the ‘case’, particularly in its psychoanalytic version, makes possible a science of the particular – knowledge open to the differences of individuals and situations. This article takes up that aspect of Forrester’s account that linked the psychoanalytic case with forms of autobiography – new narrations of that particular self. After Freud, many authors – literary and psychoanalytic – have taken up the challenge of narrating subjectivity in new forms, engaging a quasi-psychoanalytic framework (H. D., Walter Benjamin, Frantz (...)
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    Psychoanalytic sociology and the traumas of history.Matt Ffytche - 2017 - History of the Human Sciences 30 (5):3-29.
    This article examines the way aspects of recent history were excluded in key studies emerging from psychoanalytic social psychology of the mid-20th century. It draws on work by Erikson, Marcuse and Fromm, but focuses in particular on Alexander Mitscherlich. Mitscherlich, a social psychologist associated with the later Frankfurt School, was also the most important psychoanalytic figure in postwar Germany. This makes his work significant for tracing ways in which historical experience of the war and Nazism was filtered out of psychosocial (...)
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    Night of the Unexpected: A Critique of the 'Uncanny ' and Its Apotheosis Within Cultural and Social Theory.Matt Ffytche - unknown
    This essay attempts a critical analysis of the boom in 'uncanny' theory. As the 'uncanny' has carved its image in cultural, political, sociological and aesthetic theory, there has been little attempt to challenge the notion that all critical work is or should be uncanny. Introductions to the concept, such as those by Nicholas Royle and more recently Anna Masschelein, have tended to promote its ubiquity and irreducibility, even while acknowledging a dramatic shift in its fortunes since the 1990s. Opening with (...)
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    Ankersmit, Frank. Meaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Representation. Ithaca, NY-London: Cornell University Press, 2012. Pp. xi+ 264. Cloth, $35.00. Baring, Edward. The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945–1968. Ideas in Context, 98. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xi+ 326. Cloth, $95.00. Barney, Rachel, Tad Brennan, and Charles Brittain, editors. Plato and the Divided Self. Cambridge-New. [REVIEW]Matt Ffytche - 2012 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 50 (4):625-627.
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    Book review: Angus Nicholls and Martin Liebscher (eds) Thinking the Unconscious: Nineteenth-Century German Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. [REVIEW]Matt Ffytche - 2011 - History of the Human Sciences 24 (3):133-137.