Subject to Biography: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Writing Women's Lives

by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

Book Overview

In 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.

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674002075
• ISBN13: 9780674002074
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"