Publication

2000-03-29 - Harvard University Press

Language

English

Word Count

72,000 words, Guess

Page Count

288 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100674002075
  • ISBN-139780674002074
  • LibraryThing4068439
  • OCLC Control Number228297320
  • Better World Books9780674002074
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCCT3203 .Y68 1998

Description

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

Other Editions

  • Subject to BiographyPaperbackHarvard University Press2000-03-29

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