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The Problem of the Passions : Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Social Theory / Cynthia Burack.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780814786253
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.42
LOC classification:
  • HQ1190 .B873 1994
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. The Passions and Theories of Community -- 2. Coming to Terms with the Passions -- 3. The Voices of Care and Reparation -- 4. The Passions in Feminist Object Relations -- 5. Reconstituting the Self in Social Theory -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Women, says conventional wisdom, are warm, nurturing caregivers with an intrinsically enhanced capacity for attachment and compassion. Feminists, says the popular image, are full of rage, devoid of the feelings that are natural to women. How have feminists themselves dealt with this dualism and, more specifically, with the disagreeable passions? What has too often been missing from discussions of women's psychology in social theory is an account of women as ambivalent: both empathic and enraged, loving and hating. The Problem of the Passions fills this void. Examining the work of such feminist theorists as Carol Gilligan, Nancy Chodorow, Jessica Benjamin, and Dorothy Dinnerstein in a new light, Burack argues that feminist social theory can be repaired through attention to the pioneering psychoanalytic work of Melanie Klein. Sure to be of interest to feminists, psychoanalysts, political scientists, and social theorists, The Problem of the Passions is essential reading for anyone concerned with feminism and questions of identity in social thought.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. The Passions and Theories of Community -- 2. Coming to Terms with the Passions -- 3. The Voices of Care and Reparation -- 4. The Passions in Feminist Object Relations -- 5. Reconstituting the Self in Social Theory -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Women, says conventional wisdom, are warm, nurturing caregivers with an intrinsically enhanced capacity for attachment and compassion. Feminists, says the popular image, are full of rage, devoid of the feelings that are natural to women. How have feminists themselves dealt with this dualism and, more specifically, with the disagreeable passions? What has too often been missing from discussions of women's psychology in social theory is an account of women as ambivalent: both empathic and enraged, loving and hating. The Problem of the Passions fills this void. Examining the work of such feminist theorists as Carol Gilligan, Nancy Chodorow, Jessica Benjamin, and Dorothy Dinnerstein in a new light, Burack argues that feminist social theory can be repaired through attention to the pioneering psychoanalytic work of Melanie Klein. Sure to be of interest to feminists, psychoanalysts, political scientists, and social theorists, The Problem of the Passions is essential reading for anyone concerned with feminism and questions of identity in social thought.

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In English.

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