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Transitional Subjects : Critical Theory and Object Relations / ed. by Amy Allen, Brian O'Connor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New Directions in Critical Theory ; 67Publisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231183185
  • 9780231544788
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 150.19/5 23
LOC classification:
  • HM480 .T73 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- I. CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS -- 1. Fusion or Omnipotence? A Dialogue -- 2. Hate, Aggression, and Recognition: Winnicott, Klein, and Honneth -- 3. Narcissism and Critique: On Kohut's Self Psychology -- II. HISTORICAL ENCOUNTERS -- 4. Progress and the Death Drive -- 5. Transitional Objects, God, and Modeling the Commodity Form -- 6 A "True-Enough Self ": Winnicott, Object Relations Theory, and the Bases of Identity -- III. POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS -- 7. Intersubjectivity on the Couch: Recognition and Destruction in the Work of Jessica Benjamin -- 8. Politics and the Fear of Breakdown -- 9. Who Is the Perpetrator? The Missing Affect in Torture's Violation of Human Dignity -- Index
Summary: Critical social theory has long been marked by a deep, creative, and productive relationship with psychoanalysis. Whereas Freud and Fromm were important cornerstones for the early Frankfurt School, recent thinkers have drawn on the object-relations school of psychoanalysis. Transitional Subjects is the first book-length collection devoted to the engagement of critical theory with the work of Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, and other members of this school. Featuring contributions from some of the leading figures working in both of these fields, including Axel Honneth, Joel Whitebook, Noëlle McAfee, Sara Beardsworth, and C. Fred Alford, it provides a synoptic overview of current research at the intersection of these two theoretical traditions while also opening up space for further innovations.Transitional Subjects offers a range of perspectives on the critical potential of object-relations psychoanalysis, including feminist and Marxist views, to offer valuable insight into such fraught social issues as aggression, narcissism, "progress," and torture. The productive dialogue that emerges augments our understanding of the self as intersubjectively and socially constituted and of contemporary "social pathologies." Transitional Subjects shows how critical theory and object-relations psychoanalysis, considered together, have not only enriched critical theory but also invigorated psychoanalysis.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- I. CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS -- 1. Fusion or Omnipotence? A Dialogue -- 2. Hate, Aggression, and Recognition: Winnicott, Klein, and Honneth -- 3. Narcissism and Critique: On Kohut's Self Psychology -- II. HISTORICAL ENCOUNTERS -- 4. Progress and the Death Drive -- 5. Transitional Objects, God, and Modeling the Commodity Form -- 6 A "True-Enough Self ": Winnicott, Object Relations Theory, and the Bases of Identity -- III. POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS -- 7. Intersubjectivity on the Couch: Recognition and Destruction in the Work of Jessica Benjamin -- 8. Politics and the Fear of Breakdown -- 9. Who Is the Perpetrator? The Missing Affect in Torture's Violation of Human Dignity -- Index

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Critical social theory has long been marked by a deep, creative, and productive relationship with psychoanalysis. Whereas Freud and Fromm were important cornerstones for the early Frankfurt School, recent thinkers have drawn on the object-relations school of psychoanalysis. Transitional Subjects is the first book-length collection devoted to the engagement of critical theory with the work of Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, and other members of this school. Featuring contributions from some of the leading figures working in both of these fields, including Axel Honneth, Joel Whitebook, Noëlle McAfee, Sara Beardsworth, and C. Fred Alford, it provides a synoptic overview of current research at the intersection of these two theoretical traditions while also opening up space for further innovations.Transitional Subjects offers a range of perspectives on the critical potential of object-relations psychoanalysis, including feminist and Marxist views, to offer valuable insight into such fraught social issues as aggression, narcissism, "progress," and torture. The productive dialogue that emerges augments our understanding of the self as intersubjectively and socially constituted and of contemporary "social pathologies." Transitional Subjects shows how critical theory and object-relations psychoanalysis, considered together, have not only enriched critical theory but also invigorated psychoanalysis.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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