Published in:Geschichte und Psychologie - Oral History und Psychoanalyse: Problemaufriss und Literaturüberblick ; volume:29, number:4, year:2004, pages:79-119
Description:
The article is about the relationship between two scientific fields – history and psychology – with a focus on their connections during the last 150 years and about the meaning of subjectivity in history. It addresses possibilities of cooperation, taking as an example the relationship of oral history and psychoanalysis. The article emphasizes the problems regarding unconscious elements in history as well as the perception and "digestion" of history by the individual and the collective memory.