{"product_id":"impious-fidelity-anna-freud-psychoanalysis-politics-hardback-9780801450341","title":"Impious Fidelity; Anna Freud, Psychoanalysis, Politics (Hardback) 9780801450341","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eImpious Fidelity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAnna Freud, Psychoanalysis, Politics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSuzanne Stewart-Steinberg (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801450341\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 February 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 6 line drawings - 6 Line drawings, black and white\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 2.2 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna 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, psychoanalysis informs a democratic politics. A significant work of scholarship, this book is required reading for anyone interested in the history of psychoanalysis and its relationship to theories of gender and politics. Summing Up: Essential.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAre the unconscious and the psychoanalytic project itself at odds with the stable ego deemed necessary to a democratic politics? Hannah Arendt famously (and influentially) argued that they are. But Stewart-Steinberg maintains that Anna Freud's critics (particularly disciples of Melanie Klein) have simplified her thought and misconstrued her legacy. Stewart-Steinberg looks at Anna Freud's work with wartime orphans, seeing that they developed subjectivity not by vertical (through the father) but by lateral, social ties. This led Anna Freud to revise her father's emphasis on Oedipal sexuality and to posit a revision of psychoanalysis that renders it compatible with democratic theory and practice. Stewart-Steinberg gives us an Anna Freud who \"betrays\" the father even as she protects his legacy and continues his work in a new key.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. A Wider Social Stage\u003cbr\u003e 2. Girls Will Be Boys: Gender, Envy, and the Freudian Social Contract\u003cbr\u003e 3. Anna-Antigone: Experiments in Group Upbringing\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Defense of Psychoanalysis\/The Anxiety of Politics\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Ego Politics\u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52541696082200,"sku":"9780801450341","price":34.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/impious-fidelity-anna-freud-psychoanalysis-politics-hardback-9780801450341","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}