The Clinic and the Context: Historical Essays (The History of Psychoanalysis Series)

This book comprises a collection of the distinguished psychoanalyst Elisabeth Young-Bruehl’s papers ranging from ‘Psychoanalysis and Social Democracy’, ‘Civilization and its Dream of Contentement’, ‘Reflections on Women and Psychoanalysis’ and ‘Reflections on Psychobiography’. Each essay is of value in its own right, and the collection together will be found to make an important contribution to our understanding of the history of psychoanalysis. COVER 1 CONTENTS 6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 8 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 10 SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD 12 INTRODUCTION 16 CHAPTER ONE Why psychoanalysis has no history 24 CHAPTER TWO The trauma of lost love in psychoanalysis 42 CHAPTER THREE Civilisation and its dream of contentment: reflections on the unityof human kind 58 CHAPTER FOUR Psychoanalysis and social democracy: a tale of two developments 82 CHAPTER FIVE A brief history of prejudice studies 108 CHAPTER SIX Reflections on women and psychoanalysis 130 CHAPTER SEVEN Sexual diversity in cosmopolitan perspective 152 CHAPTER EIGHT Women and children first! 164 CHAPTER NINE Psychobiography and character study: a reflection 186 INDEX 204 This book comprises a collection of the distinguished psychoanalyst Elisabeth Young-Bruehl 's papers ranging from 'Psychoanalysis and Social Democracy', 'Civilization and its Dream of Contentment', 'Reflections on Women and Psychoanalysis' and 'Psychobiography and Character Study'. Each essay is of value in its own right, and the collection together will be found to make an important contribution to our understanding of the history of psychoanalysis