Transitional Subjects: Critical Theory and Object Relations

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 279
Series: New Directions in Critical Theory; 67
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Transitional Subjects is the first book-length collection devoted to the engagement of critical theory with the work of the object-relations school of psychoanalysis. It provides a synoptic overview of current research at the intersection of these two theoretical traditions while also opening up space for further innovations.

✦ Table of Contents

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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