Subject to Biography: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Writing Women's Lives - Softcover

Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674002075 ISBN 13: 9780674002074

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Writing Women's Lives

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A fascinating and challenging series of essays...They range from theoretical speculations on the art of psychobiography and the history of the troubled relationship between feminism and psychoanalysis to personal reflections on [Young-Breuhl's] empathetic connection to her chosen biographical subjects. -- Barbara Fisher Boston Globe Elisabeth Young-Bruehl demonstrates how psychobiography illuminates the complex relations between the conditions of people's lives and who they become, explores the processes that mediate between the outer and inner worlds, and makes clear that the latter is no simple product of the former...Those recognising the importance of reflexivity in research can learn a lot from these essays. As knowledge producers, we can learn too about tolerating ambiguity and paradox, resisting the seduction of certainty. -- Wendy Hollway The Psychologist

Reseña del editor:

In this provocative new book, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl illuminates the psychological and intellectual demands writing biography makes on the biographer and explores the complex and frequently conflicted relationship between feminism and psychoanalysis. A practicing psychoanalyst, a distinguished scholar, and the widely praised biographer of Anna Freud and Hannah Arendt, Young-Bruehl here reflects on the relations between self-knowledge, autobiography, biography, and cultural history. She considers what remains valuable in Sigmund Freud's work, and what areas--theory of character, for instance--must be rethought to be useful for current psychoanalytic work, for feminist studies, and for social theory. Psychoanalytic theory used for biography, she argues, can yield insights for psychoanalysis itself, particularly in the understanding of creativity. Subject to Biography offers not simply the products of an astute mind, but an entree into the thinking process; it welcomes the reader into the writer's workshop.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0674002075
• ISBN 13: 9780674002074
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288