Review
The Power of Feelings . . . has much to offer feminists both inside and outside the academy in the form of an incisive critique of postmodern trends. . . . Chodorow's new book does more, however, than bring us up to date on current practices in psychoanalysis. The Power of Feelings also presents a major revision of her earlier suppositions about gender identity. Although Chodorow herself emphasizes points of continuity, many readers will be surprised. Some may even be shocked. . . . The Power of Feelings allows us to appreciate the difference between psychoanalysis as a universalizing theory and psychoanalysis as therapeutic practice. --
Mari Jo Buhle, Women's Review of Books
Product Description
The author of this text claims that psychoanalysis offers in its clinical goals and its vision of possibility insight into the nature of subjectivity and the quality of good relations with others. It continues centuries of reflection and imagination about the good life.
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