Psychoanalysis and Culture at the Millennium

by Edited by Nancy Ginsburg and Roy Ginsburg

• ISBN13: 9780300071900
• ISBN10: 0300071906
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1999-05-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

This outstanding collection of essays explores the pervasive influence of psychoanalysis on culture and thought in the late twentieth century. Eminent contributors representing the fields of philosophy, history, anthropology, literature, art history, and psychoanalysis examine the scope and variety of Sigmund Freud's impact on the modern intellectual climate. They show how Freud and others who followed him have profoundly expanded our understanding of human nature. The contributors discuss the psychoanalytic value of picture books for the young child; the historical and social meanings of perversion; the gendered cultural geography of Freud's mind; current issues of nationalism; and a variety of other topics that reveal both the diversity and the unity of psychoanalysis at the approach of a new millennium.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Contributors	xi
Introduction Psychoanalysis: From Modernism to Postmodernism?	1	(10)
Paul Robinson
Part I Freud and Culture
To the Egyptian Dig: Freud's Exploration in Western Cultures	11	(26)
Carl E. Schorske
Part II History and Anthropology
The Construction of National Identity	37	(27)
Peter Loewenberg
A Psychoanalytic Study of Argentine Soccer	64	(32)
Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco
Historicizing the Psyche of Psychohistory: Comment on Loewenberg and Suarez-Orozco	96	(21)
John Toews
Part III Literature
Psychoanalytic Process and Literary Narrative: Transference and Countertransference in Jane Eyre	117	(32)
Richard Almond
The Enigmatic Jewishness of Leopold Bloom	149	(44)
Paul Schwaber
Unconscious Fantasy in Jane Eyre and Ulysses: Comment on Almond and Schwaber	193	(26)
Jerome A. Winer
Part IV Art
A Century of Silence: Abstraction and Withdrawal in Modern Art	219	(20)
Lynn Gamwell
Primary Art Objects: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Picture Books for Children	239	(29)
Ellen Handler Spitz
Pimping and Midwifery: Reflections on Art and Psychoanalysis	268	(25)
Richard Kuhns
Part V Psychoanalysis and Culture
Materialism, Humanism, and Psychoanalysis	293	(20)
Charles Hanly
Devil's Religions: Some Reflections on the Historical and Social Meanings of the Perversions	313	(24)
Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel
Some Reflections on the Failure to Develop an Adequate Psychoanalytic Sociology: Comment on Hanly and Chasseguet-Smirgel	337	(18)
Eli Sagan
Part VI Epilogue
Freud and Culture in Our Fin de Siecle Revisited	355	(26)
Robert S. Wallerstein
Index	381