History Flows Through Us introduces a new dialogue between leading historians and psychoanalysts and provides essential insights into the nature of historical trauma. The contributors - German historians, historians of the Holocaust and psychoanalysts of different disciplinary backgrounds - address the synergy between history and psychoanalysis in an engaging and accessible manner. Together they develop a response to German history and the Holocaust that is future-oriented and timely in the presence of today's ethnic hatreds. In the process, they help us to appreciate the emotional and political legacy of history's collective crimes.

Roger Frie is Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University and Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and Psychoanalytic Faculty and Supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology in New York. He is the author of Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility after the Holocaust (2017).

Historical Trauma and Lived Experience: An Introduction Roger Frie I. Remembering the Past 1. From Psychohistory to Memory Studies: Or how some Germans became Jews and some Jews became Nazis Alon Confino 2. "Memory" and its Discontents Dorothee Wierling II. Responding to the Past 3. Experiential History: Understanding Backwards Donna M. Orange 4. "Unprecedented": Concepts and Narratives about Mass Violence and the Holocaust Alexandra Garbarini 5. Transmitting Hate: On the Process of Hating and Being Hated Jörg Bose III: Confronting the Past 6. The Stowaway: Reality, the Holocaust and the Historical Unconscious Robert Prince 7. National Nightmare: The Legacy of Perpetrator Trauma M. Gerard Fromm 8. Not as One Would Like to Imagine: Psychoanalysis During and After the Third Reich Emily Kuriloff IV: Bridging Psychoanalysis and History 9. Psyche and History: Wilhelm II and his Role in German Politics Reconsidered Ute Daniel 10. Fathers and Sons: The Kohut Odyssey Geoffrey Cocks 11. Psychoanalysis and History at the Crossroads: A Dialogue with Thomas Kohut Roger Frie