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

Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674853717 ISBN 13 : 9780674853713

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1999

Synopsis

In this volume, the author illuminates the psychological and intellectual demands that writing biography makes on the biographer and explores the complex and frequently conflicted relationship between feminism and psychoanalysis.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl is a psychotherapist at the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. She has written two well-known biographies, one of Hannah Arendt and one of Anna Freud, as well as Freud on Women, Creative Characters, and a collection of essays, Mind and the Body, and a novel, Vigil.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674853717
• ISBN 13: 9780674853713
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 286
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible