Attachment, Sexuality, Power: Oedipal Theory as Regulator of Family Affection in Freud's Case of Little Hans

by Jerome C. Wakefield

In Attachment, Sexuality, Power, Jerome C. Wakefield challenges established views of Freudian psychoanalysis by applying Foucault's concept of 'power/knowledge' to Freud's case of Little Hans, illuminating the role that Oedipal theory has played in reorganizing intimate family relationships.

Combining close examination of the Hans case with accounts of the history of marriage and psychology of co-sleeping, this book argues that the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032224096
• ISBN13: 9781032224091
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"