PETER J LOEWENBERG

PROFESSOR EMERITUS

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Selected Publications

“Cultural History and Psychoanalysis,” Psychoanalysis and History, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2007), pp. 17-37.

“Freud, Schnitzler, and Eyes Wide Shut,” in Geoffrey Cocks, James Diedrick, and Glenn Perusek, eds., Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick, Film, and the Uses of History, (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), pp. 255-279.

“Remembering Fawn McKay Brodie (1915-1981),” Clio’s Psyche, Vol. 13, No. 1 (June 2006), pp. 1-34. Reprinted in Paul Elovitz, ed., Applying Psychology to Current Events, History, and Society: Essays from the Journal Clio’s Psyche (Psychohistory Forum and Clio’s Psyche, 2006), pp. 14-17.

"Freud as a Cultural Historian,” The American Psychoanalyst, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Winter/Spring 2006), pp. 25-35.

"The Bauhaus as a Creative Play Space: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, 19191933," The Annual of Psychoanalysis, Vol. XXXIII (2005), pp. 118.

“Klinische und historische Perspektiven intergenerationaler Vermittlung von Trauma,” Psychosozial, 28 Jahrgang, Nr. 102 (2005), Heft 4, 9-17.

“A Correspondence on Teaching Emotion and Politics” (with Mark Fisher), Clio’s Psyche, 12:3 (December 2005), 113-118.

“Assisted Dying in Contemporary America,” in Andreas Bähr and Hans Medick, eds., Sterben von eigener Hand: Selbsttötung als kulturelle Praxis (Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2005), pp. 219-38.

“Wild Analysis: A New Freud Translation,” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol. 53, No. 3 (2005), 973-979. “Sigmund Freud, Max Weber, and the Shoah,” Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte, XXXII (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2004), pp.135-147.

“Freud, Schnitzler und Eyes Wide Shut,” Psyche, 58:12 (Dezember 2004), 1156-1181.

“Die soziale Konstruktion der Sexualmoral und die klinische Situation,” in Die Kindheit überleben, eds. Thomas Kniesche and Laurence Rickels (Würzburg: Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, 2004), 3-12.

“Lucian and Sigmund Freud,” American Imago, Vol. 61, No. 1 (Spring, 2004), 89-99.

“Der Sozialpsychologisch-psychoanalytische Beitrag Bruno Bettelheims,” Zeitschrift für Politische Psychologie, Jg. 11, Nr. 1-3 (2003), 241-244.

"The Psychology of Creating the Other in National Identity, Ethnic Enmity, and Racism," in Nancy M. Wingfield, ed., Creating the Other: Ethnic Conflict and Nationalism in Habsburg Central Europe (New York: Berghahn Books, 2003), pp. 243-256.

“Wo sind die Emotionen? Oder: Die Psychoanalyse als Proto-Postmoderne,” in Alf Gerlach, Anne-Marie Schlösser, Anna Springer, Hg, Psychoanalyse mit und ohne Couch: Haltung und Methode (Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag, 2003), pp. 60-72.

"Postmodern Psychoanalytic Theory," (in Chinese), Historiography Quarterly, (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing), 4 (2002), 98-104.

“Aggression in World War I: The Deepest Part of Sigmund Freud’s Self-Analysis,” in Conflict and Cooperation: The Individual Between Ideal and Reality, ed. Günther Baechler and Andreas Wenger (Zürich: Neue Zürcher Zeitung Publishing, 2002), pp. 81-92.

Psychoanalitycne Modele Historii: Freud Pózneij,” in Psyche I Klio: Historia W Oczah Psychohistoryków, Tomasz Pawelec, ed. and trans. (Lublin: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskeij, 2002), pp. 111-139.

“Aggression im Ersten Weltkrieg: Der “tiefste Teil” von Sigmund Freuds Selbst-Ananlyse,” SOWI: Sozialwissenschaftliche Informationen (Freiburg), 3/2001, 53-62.

“Freud as a Cultural Subversive,” The Annual of Psychoanalysis, ed. Jerome Winer and James W. Anderson (Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press, 2001), 39:117-130.

“Legalizing and Advancing Psychoanalytic Academic Research Training,” Clio’s Psyche, 8: 1 (June 2001), 1-31. “John Muir and the Erotization of Nature,” Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 2: 4 (2000), 365-381.

L’agressivité pendant la PremiPre Guerre mondiale: l’ auto-analyse approfondie die Sigmund Freud, Sigmund Freud de L’interprétation des rLves B L’Homme MoVse(Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2000), pp. 55-63.

“Violence and Health: Personal, Social, National, Ethnic and Racial Issues,” in Violence and Health (Kobe: World Health Organization, 2000), pp. 360-367.

“Psychoanalysis as a Hermeneutic Science,” in Peter Brooks and Alex Woloch, eds., Whose Freud: The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), pp. 96-115; 130-137.

“A Stoic Death: Sigmund Freud, Max Schur, and Assisted Dying in Contemporary America,” in Mark S. Micale and Robert L. Dietle, eds., Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), pp. 360-486.

Emotion und Subjektivität: Desiderata der gegenwärtigen Geschichtswissenschaft aus psychoanalytischer Perspektive,” in P. Nolte, M. Hertling, F.M. Kuhlemann, and H.W. Schmuhl, eds., Perspetiven der Gesellschaftsgeschichte (München: Verlag C.H. Beck, 2000), pp. 58-78.

“The Construction of National Identity,” in Nancy Ginsburg and Roy Ginsburg, eds., Psychoanalysis and Culture at the Millennium (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pp. 37-63.

Xenophobie als intrapsychisches Phänomen,” in Irene Etzersdorfer and Michel Ley (Hg.), Menschenangst: Die Angst vor dem Fremden (Berlin: Philo Verlag, 1999), pp. 113-120.

“Herzl Between Fantasy and Reality,” in Gideon Shimoni and Robert S. Wistrich, eds., Theodor Herzl (Jerusalem: Magnes Press of the Hebrew University, 1999), pp. 3-14.

“The Nation at Arms: Concepts of Nationalism and War in Germany, 1866-1914. Comment,” in Hartmut Lehmann and Hermann Wellenreuther, eds., German and American Nationalism in Comparative Perspective (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1999), pp. 263-269.

The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi, vol. 2, 1914-1919, edited by Ernst Falzeder and Eva Brabant with the collaboration of Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch under the supervision of André Haynal; transcribed by Ingeborg Meyer-Palmedo; translated by Peter T. Hoffer; introduction by Axel Hoffer (Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996), in Psychoanalytic Books, 9:3 (1998), pp. 273-280.

"Psychoanalytisce Ich-Psychologie, Objektbeziehungstheorie und ihre Anwendbarkeit in der Geschichtswissenschaft," in Jörn Rüsen and Jürgen Straub, ed., Die dunkle Spur der Vergangenheit: Psychoanalytische Zugänge zum Geschichtsbewusstsein; Erinnerung, Geschichte, Identität (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1998), pp. 101-130. English ed. (Oxford: Berghahn Books).

“Forward” to Geoffrey Cocks, Treating Mind and Body: Essays in the History of Science, Professions, and Society Under Extreme Conditions (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1998), pp. vii-xvii. “Professional and Personal Insights,” Clio’s Psyche, 4:2 (September 1997), 33-36. “The Pagan Freud,” in Stephen Barker, ed., Excavations and Their Objects: Freud’s Collection of Antiquity (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996), pp. 13-32, 130-134.

“Psychoanalytic Ego Psychology and Object Relations and Their Uses for the Historian,” Psychohistory Review: Studies of Motivation in History and Culture, 25:1 (Fall 1996), 21-46. "Germany, the Home Front: The Physical and Psychological Consequences of Home Front Hardship," in Hugh Cecil, ed., Facing Armageddon: The First World War Experienced (London: Leo Cooper, 1996), pp. 554-562.

Decoding the Past: The Psychohistorical Approach(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983); (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985); (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1996, paperback edition with a new introduction,). Fantasy and Reality in History(New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).

“In California’s Universities Research Psychoanalysts Prove Their Interdisciplinary Mettle,” The American Psychoanalyst, 30:1 (1996), 19-20.

"Spaltungen," in Ludger M. Hermanns, Hrsg., Spaltungen in der Geschichte der Psychoanalyse (Tübingen: Edition Discord, 1995), pp. 138-140. "Psychoanalysis, Sexual Morality, and the Clinical Situation," in Rediscovering History: Culture, Politics, and the Psyche, Michael S. Roth, ed. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994), pp. 61-82.

"The State, National Hatred, and its Transcendence," Clio's Psyche, Vol.I, No. 3 (December, 1994), 4-7. "Sigmund Freud's Psycho-Social Identity," in 100 Years of Psychoanalysis: Contributions to the History of Psychoanalysis, André Haynal and Ernst Falzeder, eds., special issue of Cahiers Psychiatriques

Genevois (London: Karnac Books, 1994), pp. 135-150. “The Praxis of Peter Loewenberg,” Clio’s Psyche, 1:2 (September 1994), 5-8. "The Psychological Reality of Nationalism: Between Community and Fantasy," Mind and Human Interaction, Vol. 5, No. 1 (February 1994), 6-18.

“Psychoanalytic Research Training: A California Success Story,” The American Psychoanalyst, 27:2 (1993), 11-12. "Die Psychodynamik des Antijudismus in historischer Perspektive," in Psyche: Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen (Stuttgart), Vol. 46, No. 12 (December 1992), pp. 1095-1121.

Translated into Portugese in IDE: Review of the Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanalise de Sao Paulo (1994). "The Psychodynamics of Nationalism" in History of European Ideas, Vol. 15, No. 1-3 (August 1992), 93-103.

"The Pagan Freud," in Robert Wistrich, ed., Austrians and Jews in the Twentieth Century (London: Macmillan Press, Ltd., 1992), pp. 124-141. "Karl Renner and the Politics of Accommodation: Moderation versus Revenge," Austrian History Yearbook, Vol. 22 (1991), 35-56.

"The Uses of Anxiety," Partisan Review (1991), No. 3, 514-525. "Anxiety in History," Journal of Preventive Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 4: 2-3 (1990), 143-164. "The Social Psychoanalytic Contributions of Bruno Bettelheim," Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Bulletin, (Fall, 1990), pp. 30-32.

“A Conversation with Peter Loewenberg,” The American Psychoanalyst, 24:3 (Fall 1990), 8-11.

"Psychoanalytic Models of History: Freud and After," in William M. Runyan, ed., Psychology and Historical Interpretation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. 126-156.

"The End of Analysis," Partisan Review, 55: 1 (1988), 82- 96. "An Historical, Biographical, Literary, and Clinical Consideration of Freud's 'Analysis Terminable and Interminable' on its Fiftieth Birthday," International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 69 (1988), 273-281. Translated and reprinted as: "Eine historische, biographische, literarische und klinische Betrachtung zum 50. Entstehungs jahr von Freuds Abhandlung "Die endliche und die unendliche Analyse," Psyche: Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen (Stuttgart), 44: 9 (September 1990), 773-787.

"Psychodynamics of the Holocaust," in Remembering for the Future: The Impact of the Holocaust and Genocide on Jews and Christians.
(Oxford, England: Pergamon Press. Supplementary Volume, 1988), pp. 284-297.

"The Kristallnacht as a Public Degradation in Ritual," Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, 32 (London: Secker & Warburg (1987), pp. 308-323. Reprinted in Michael R. Marrus, The Nazi Holocaust, Vol. 2, The Origins of the Holocaust (Westport, CT: Meckler), 1989, pp. 582-596. Translated into Chinese in History and Theory (Beijing, China), Vol. 2 (1988), pp. 128-136; translated into German as "Die 'Reichskristallnacht' vom 9. zum 10. November 1938 als "offentliches Erniedrigungstitual," in Psychoanalysis 1986: Essays on a Theory and its Applications, Sigmund Freud House Bulletin (Vienna), Vol. 10 (Winter 1986), 313-324; reprinted in Mitteilungsblatt der Berliner Arzte Kammer, Vol. 25, No. 11 (3 November 1988), 575-586. Werner Bohleber and John Kafka, Eds., Antisemitismus (Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 1992), 39-64. "Nixon, Hitler, and Power: An Ego Psychological Study," Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 6: 1 (1986), 27-48.

"Historical Method, the Subjectivity of the Researcher, and Psychohistory," in Rapports, II, XVIe Congres International des Sciences Historiques (Stuttgart, 1985), pp. 634-640. Reprinted in Psychohistory Review, 14:1 (1985), pp. 1-2. "Otto Bauer as an Ambivalent Party Leader," in Anson Rabinbach, ed., The Austrian Experiment: Social Democracy and Austromarxism, 1918-1934
(Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1985), pp. 71-79.

"A Creative Epoch in Modern Science: Psychiatry at the Burgholzli, 1902- 1912," American College of Psychoanalysts Newsletter, Vol. XVI, No. 1 (Spring 1985), 1-2.

“Subjectivity and Empathy as Guides to Progress in Counselling,” Counsellor: Journal of the Institute of Educational & Vocational Guidance in Pakistan (Peshawar), Issue 2-84(July-December 1984), 31-42.

Walther Rathenau and Henry Kissinger: The Jew as Modern Statesman in Two Political Cultures (New York: Leo Baeck Institute, 1980). "Psychohistory," in Michael Kammen, ed., The Past Before Us: Contemporary Historical Writing in the United States (Cornell University Press and the American Historical Association, 1980), pp. 408-432.

"Antisemitismus und jüdischer Selbsthass: Eine sich wechselseitig verstärkende sozialpsychologische Doppelbeziehung," Geschichte und Gesellschaft: Zeitschrift für Historische Sozialwissenschaft, 5: 4 (1979), 455-475.

"Walter Rathenau and the Tensions of Wilhelmine Society," in David Bronsen, ed., Jews and Germans from 1860 to 1933: The Problematic Symbiosis (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitaetsverlag, 1979), 100-127. "History and Psychoanalysis," in The International Encyclopedia of Neurology, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1977), Vol. 5, pp. 363-374.

Translated into Spanish as "La Historia y el Psicoanalisis,"in Enciclopedia Internacional de Psiquiatria, Psicologia, Psicoanalisis y Neurologia, Volumen V (Nueva York: Prensa de las Ciencias Humanas, 1977).

"Psychohistorical Perspectives on Modern German History," Journal of Modern History, 47: 2 (June 1975), pp. 229-279. "Why Psychoanalysis Needs the Social Scientist and the Historian," International Review of Psycho-Analysis (London), 4: 3 (1977), 305-315. "Racism and Tolerance in Historical Perspective," in Race, Change, and Urban Society, Urban Affairs Annual Review, Vol. 5, P. Orleans and W. R. Ellis, Jr., eds. (Beverly Hills, CA.: Sage Publications Inc., 1971), pp. 561-576. "Die Psychodynamic des Antijudentums," Jahrbuch des Instituts für Deutsche Geschichte, Walter Grab, ed., Vol.I (1972), pp. 145-158.

"Love and Hate in the Academy," The Center Magazine, V: 5 (September-October 1972), pp. 4-11.

"The Psychodynamics of Campus Confrontations," Bulletin of the Woodview Hospital, VI: 1 (July 1972), pp. 1-12. "Theodor Herzl: A Psychoanalytic Study in Charismatic Political Leadership," in The Psychoanalytic Interpretation of History, Benjamin B. Wolman, ed. (Basic Books, 1971, pp. 150-191. Paperback edition Harper Torchbooks, 1973).

"The Unsuccessful Adolescense of Heinrich Himmler," American Historical Review, 76- 3 (June 1971), pp. 612-641. "Sigmund Freud as a Jew: A Study of Ambivalence and Courage," Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, VII: 4 (October 1971), pp. 363-369. Translated into Spanish as: "Sigmund Freud como un Judio": un estudio en ambivalencia y corage," Diario de la Historio de las Ciencias del Comportamiento.

"The Psychohistorical Origins of the Nazi Youth Cohort," American Historical Review, 76: 5 (December 1971), 1457-1502. Reprinted in John L. Snell and Allan Mitchell, eds., The Nazi Revolution: Hitler's Dictatorship and the German Nation, second edition (Lexington, Massachusetts: D. V. Heath and Co., 1973), pp. 93-116; in Sosiologi Grunnfag (Bergen, Troms, Oslo: Universitets-forlaget, 1973), pp. 72-117; in Anthony Esler, ed., The Youth Revolution: The Conflict of Generation in Modern History (D.C. Heath, 1947), pp. 82-105; in George Kren and Leon Rappoport, ed., Varieties of Psychohistory (New York: Springer Publishing Co., 1976); in Alfred J. Andrea and Wolfe W. Schmokel, eds., The Living Past: Western Historiographical Traditions (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1975), pp. 270- 284; Trans. in Chinese in History and Heart: Theories and Practice of Psychohistory in the West (Beijing: CIP, 1998), pp. 129-183; in Polish as “Psychohistoryczne Poczatki Nazistowskiej Mlodej Kohorty,” in Psyche I Klio: Historia W Oczah Psychohistoryków, Tomasz Pawelec, ed. and trans. (Lublin: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskeij, 2002), pp. 227-270.

"The Psychology of Racism," in The Great Fear: Race in the Mind of America, G. B. Nash and R. Weiss, eds., (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970), pp. 186-201. Reprinted in Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing, G. Colombo, R. Cullen, B. Lisle, eds. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), pp. 114-122.

"Problems of the Academic Research Candidate," Newsletter of the National Candidates Council, American Psychoanalytic Association, 1: 2 (April 1971), pp. 11-13.

"A Critique of Arno Mayer's Internal Causes and Purposes of War in Europe, 1870-1956," for the Journal of Modern History, 42: 4 (December 1970), pp. 628-636.

“A Hidden Zionist Theme in Freud’s ‘My Son, the Myops...’Dream,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 31:1, 129-132.

"An Interview with Richard Drinnon," Studies On the Left, II: 1 Summer (1961), pp. 76-81. "Oppositionelle Tendenzen in den USA," Blatter fur Deutsche und International Politik, VI: 9 (September 1961), pp. 838-846.

"Israel 1962 - kritisch gesehen," WIR (November-December 1962), pp. 15-19.

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