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List of contents
Introduction, by Amy Allen and Brian O’Connor
Part I: Conceptual Foundations
1. Fusion or Omnipotence? A Dialogue, by Axel Honneth and Joel Whitebook
2. Hate, Aggression, and Recognition: Winnicott, Klein, and Honneth, by C. Fred Alford
3. Narcissism and Critique: On Kohut’s Self Psychology, by Alessandro Ferrara
Part II: Historical Encounters
4. Progress and the Death Drive, by Amy Allen
5. Transitional Objects, God, and Modeling the Commodity Form, by Owen Hulatt
6. A “True- Enough Self ”: Winnicott, Object Relations Theory, and the Bases of Identity, by James Martel
Part III: Political Implications
7. Intersubjectivity on the Couch: Recognition and Destruction in the Work of Jessica Benjamin, by Johanna Meehan
8. Politics and the Fear of Breakdown, by Noëlle McAfee
9. Who Is the Perpetrator? The Missing Affect in Torture’s Violation of Human Dignity, by Sara Beardsworth
Index
About the author
Amy Allen is Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and head of the Department of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University. Her books include, most recently, The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (Columbia, 2016).
Brian O’Connor is professor of philosophy at University College Dublin. His books include Adorno (2013) and Idleness: A Philosophical Essay (2018).
Summary
Transitional Subjects is the first book-length collection devoted to the engagement of critical theory with the work of the object-relations school of psychoanalysis. It provides a synoptic overview of current research at the intersection of these two theoretical traditions while also opening up space for further innovations.
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An incisive set of essays comprising new perspectives on the perennial interest of critical theorists in psychoanalysis . . . Ideal for students and scholars of critical theory and also for the study of humanistic psychology generally.
