Dagmar Herzog

Although psychoanalysis is often taken to be ahistorical in its view of human nature, Dagmar Herzog’s contention is the opposite. Situated at the intersections of psychoanalysis and the social sciences, her research concerns the uneasy encounters of Freudian theories about aggression, trauma, desire, fear, and pleasure––and the very nature of the human self and its motivations––with the calamitous events of World War II and beyond.