Presenting the past : psychoanalysis and the sociology of misremembering / Jeffrey Prager.
Presenting the past : psychoanalysis and the sociology of misremembering / Jeffrey Prager.
Presenting the past : psychoanalysis and the sociology of misremembering / Jeffrey Prager.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
Date
1998.
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N153.12/29
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English
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261 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents
1. Ms. A. and the Problem of Misremembering -- 2. Memory's Contexts -- 3. Memory, Culture, and the Self -- 4. Trauma and the Memory Wars -- 5. Toward an Intersubjective Science of Memory.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
1998.
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Synthesizing research from social science, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology, Prager uses clinical examples to argue more generally that our memories are never simple records of events, but are constantly evolving constructions, affected by contemporary culture as well as by our own private lives. He demonstrates the need that...
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Presenting the past : psychoanalysis and the sociology of misremembering / Jeffrey Prager.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-249) and index.
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N153.12/29
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74Vvz2MDbK2b
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0674566416 (alk. paper)
9780674566415 (alk. paper)
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153.12
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991009268579702626
