×


 x 

Shopping cart
Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg - Impious Fidelity: Anna Freud, Psychoanalysis, Politics - 9780801450341 - V9780801450341
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.

Impious Fidelity: Anna Freud, Psychoanalysis, Politics

€ 52.12
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Impious Fidelity: Anna Freud, Psychoanalysis, Politics Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 6, black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 243 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.

In Impious Fidelity, Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg investigates the legacy of Anna Freud at the intersection between psychoanalysis as a mode of thinking and theorizing and its existence as a political entity. Stewart-Steinberg argues that because Anna Freud inherited and guided her father's psychoanalytic project as an institution, analysis of her thought is critical to our understanding of the relationship between the psychoanalytic and the political. This is particularly the case given that many psychoanalysts and historians of psychiatry charge that Anna Freud’s emphasis on defending the supremacy of the ego against unconscious drives betrayed her father’s work.

Are the unconscious ... Read more

Show Less

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801450341
SKU
V9780801450341
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-12

About Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg
Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Sublime Surrender: Male Masochism at the Fin-de-siècle, also from Cornell, and The Pinocchio Effect: On Making Italians 1860–1920.

Reviews for Impious Fidelity: Anna Freud, Psychoanalysis, Politics
Anna Freud—criticized by Lacanians and Kleinians for mitigating the importance of the unconscious in human life—gets her due in this brilliant work.... For Stewart-Steinberg, her central insight is 'altruistic surrender,' in which ambition is experienced magnanimously rather than aggressively, displaced onto an other who stands as a proxy for the self. By making the other a representative of the self, ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Impious Fidelity: Anna Freud, Psychoanalysis, Politics


Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!