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Subject to biography : psychoanalysis, feminism, and writing women's lives
- Title
- Subject to biography : psychoanalysis, feminism, and writing women's lives / Elisabeth Young-Bruehl.
- Author
- Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
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- Description
- 282 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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. 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.
- Subjects
- Women
- Biographies
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- collective biographies
- Biography
- Women and psychoanalysis
- Psychoanalysis and feminism
- Biography as a literary form
- Women > Biography > History and criticism
- Biografieën
- Psychoanalyse
- Feminisme
- Frau
- Feminismus
- Feminism
- Literature
- Literature, Modern
- Psychoanalysis
- women (female humans)
- biography (general genre)
- feminism
- psychoanalysis
- biographies (literary works)
- Psychoanalytic Theory
- Biographies as Topic
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-278) and index.
- Contents
- pt. I. The Practice of Psychobiography. 1. The Biographer's Empathy with Her Subject. 2. Psychoanalytic Reflections on Creativity. 3. Reflections on Anna Freud: A Biography. 4. Looking for Anna Freud's Mother. 5. Anna Freud as a Historian of Psychoanalysis. 6. Profile of Anna Freud as a Latency Woman. 7. A History of Freud Biographies. 8. Hannah Arendt among Feminists. 9. The Exemplary Independence of Hannah Arendt -- pt. II. Feminism and Psychoanalysis. 10. Rereading Freud on Female Development. 11. On Psychoanalysis and Feminism. 12. What Happened to "Anorexie Hysterique"? 13. Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Anorexia Nervosa. 14. Gender and Psychoanalysis. 15. What Theories Women Want.
- ISBN
- 0674853717
- 9780674853713
- 0674002075
- 9780674002074
- LCCN
- 98022417
- OCLC
- ocm39131079
- 39131079
- SCSB-9678910
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library