Format:
1 online resource (243 pages)
ISBN:
9780231540148
Content:
Political Freud considers how twentieth century radicals, activists, and thinkers used Freudian thought to understand the political developments of their times. Eli Zaretsky shows how important political readings of Freud were to the theory of fascism, African American radical thought, and feminism and gay liberation.
Content:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction-Political Freud -- 1. Psychoanalysis and the Spirit of Capitalism -- 2. Beyond the Blues: The Racial Unconscious and Collective Memory -- 3. In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Rereading Freud's Moses -- 4. The Ego at War: From the Death Instinct to Precarious Life -- 5. From the Maturity Ethic to the Psychology of Power: The New Left, Feminism, and the Return to "Social Reality" -- Afterword-Freud in the Twenty-first Century -- Notes -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231172448
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780231172448
Language:
English
