Maternalists - Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State

The Maternalists explores how mid-twentieth-century British psychoanalysis created a new mother-centered culture, which after 1945 would shape dramatically both welfare ideology and the British welfare state itself.

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. The "Sphincter-Morality" and Beyond: The Concept of Childhood in Interwar Psychoanalysis

Chapter 2. How Children Think: Susan Isaacs on "Primitive" Thinking

Chapter 3. Malinowski, Róheim, and the Maternal Shift in British Psychoanalysis and Anthropology

Chapter 4. Imagining the "Maternal" Past: Ian Suttie's Critique of Oedipal Culture

Chapter 5. What About Father? Civic-Republican Maternalism and the Welfare State

Chapter 6. "The Drug 'Doctor'": The Balint Movement and Psychosocial Medicine in Postwar Britain

Conclusion

Note

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Shaul Bar-Haim

Summary

The Maternalists explores how mid-twentieth-century British psychoanalysis created a new mother-centered culture, which after 1945 would shape dramatically both welfare ideology and the British welfare state itself.

Product details

• Authors: Shaul Bar-Haim
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9780812253153
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5315-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Intellectual History of the Modern Age; Intellectual History of the Mo
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945)