In Fantasy and Reality in History, Peter Loewenberg brings what the discipline of psychoanalysis has learned about human conduct and the irrational to bear on the analysis and writing of history. The result is a remarkable series of studies on individual and social anxiety, racism and nationalism, and crisis management.

We frequently engage with that which we consciously perceive not to be real, yet fantasy, despite its pervasive presence and strong role in everyday life through its connection to identities, communities, desires, and meanings, has yet to be properly defined and researched. This book examines fantasy from a performance theory

Die kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung hat in den letzten Jahren das Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges als Epochenschwelle, als gewaltigen "Einhieb von 1918", der eine prinzipielle "Veranderung im Grundgeflechte" (Heimito von Doderer) Osterreichs bewirken sollte, verstarkt in ihren analytischen Blick genommen. Der Sammelband enthalt die Vortrage einer interdisziplinaren Konferenz, die zu diesem vielfaltigen

In the summer of 2006, the author received a message that read, Love the Nazis, and KILL THE JEWS DEAD. And that was the trigger that launched internationally known scholar Falk into work on this book. Anti-Semitism has once again become a worldwide phenomenon, growing largely during the last decade

Psychological Undercurrents of History gathers together salient works of scholarship which endeavor to interpret the madness and imagination of our past, from ancient religion, to the Holocaust, to Millennialism and Apocalypyic violence.