{"product_id":"subject-to-biography-9780674002074","title":"Subject to Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Elisabeth Young-Bruehl\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Women's Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this provocative new book, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl illuminates the psychological and intellectual demands writing biography makes on the biographer and explores the complex and frequently conflicted relationship between feminism and psychoanalysis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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 current psychoanalytic work, for feminist studies, and for social theory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePsychoanalytic theory used for biography, she argues, can yield insights for psychoanalysis itself, particularly in the understanding of creativity\u003ci\u003e. Subject to Biography\u003c\/i\u003e offers not simply the products of an astute mind, but an entrée into the thinking process; it welcomes the reader into the writer's workshop.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45608222195863,"sku":"9780674002074","price":4410.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780674002074.webp?v=1767943040","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/subject-to-biography-9780674002074","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}