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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Alessandro, Ferrara,; Amy, Allen,; Axel, Honneth,; Brian, O'Connor,; C. Fred, Alford,; James, Martel,; Joel, Whitebook,; Johanna, Meehan,; Noëlle, McAfee,; Owen, Hulatt,; Sara, Beardsworth,
• TeilnehmendeR: Alford, C. Fred.; Allen, Amy.; Beardsworth, Sara.; Ferrera, Alessandro.; Honneth, Axel.; Hulatt, Owen.; Martel, James.; McAfee, Noëlle.; Meehan, Johanna.; Whitebook, Joel.
• HerausgeberIn: Allen, Amy,; O'Connor, Brian,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: New Directions in Critical Theory ; 67
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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...

Table of 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