Subject to Biography Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Writing Women's Lives
- List Price: $43.50
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
- Publish date: 01/01/1999
A practicing psychoanalyst, a distinguished scholar, and the widely praised biographer of Anna Freud and Hannah Arendt, Young-Bruehl here reflects on the relations between self-knowledge, autobiography, biography, and cultural history. 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 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. Subject to Biography offers not simply the products of an astute mind, but an entree into the thinking process; it welcomes the reader into the writer's workshop.
