Cracks and Crevices. "History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis" by Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds (eds) [review]
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2003-10
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MacKinnon, Dolly
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Australian Book Review
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These essays explore the legacy of Freud and the post-Freudian evolution of ideas by Erik Erickson, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein et al. with varying degrees of success. Many of the essays read easily, while some are opaque because of their theoretical foregrounding. These essays ask us questions we may not have thought of, nor had the courage to ask or even answer. The best essays in the collection provide a complex rereading of historical events through the lens of psychoanalysis. They show us the value of the evidence to be found between the ‘cracks and crevices’ of the past, and reveal the history of the unconscious and its role in forming individual and collective histories.
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Australian, Book Reviews, Publishing, Steven Greenblatt, Peter Gay, Freud for Historians, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, John Cash, Catharine Coleborne, kylie valentine, Maggie Nolan, John Rickard, Bain Attwood, Donald Thompson, Christopher E. Forth, Henri-Frederic Amiel, Miriam Dixon, Marjorie O'Loughlin, Nicola Nixon, Christina Twomey, Esther Faye, Rose Lucas, Dolly MacKinnon, Judith Brett
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MacKinnon, Dolly 2003. Cracks and Crevices. Review of "History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis" by Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds (eds). 'Australian Book Review', No 255, October, 14.