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Episode: Dagmar Herzog, âCold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophesâ (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Description: âCreate two, threeâmany Freuds!â That, Dagmar Herzog shows, was the forgotten slogan of the Cold War. With Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Prof. Herzog carries forward the groundbreaking research program into the politics of desire that already brought us Sex After Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany and Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and The Future of American Politics. The book offers fresh readings of the work of such titanic (and sadly misunderstood) figures as Karen Horney, Robert Stoller, FĂ©lix Guattari and Konrad Lorenzâand it will change the way y...