Alice Wexler

The Analyst

A Daughter's Memoir

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Analyst is an intimate and searching portrait of Milton Wexler, written by his daughter, an acclaimed historian. Alice Wexler illuminates her fatherâ s intense private life and explores how his life and work illuminate the broader reaches of Freudian ideas in the United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 160mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 648g
• ISBN-13: 9780231202787
• ISBN-10: 0231202784
• Artikelnr.: 63046536

Autorenporträt

Alice Wexler is the author of a two-volume biography of Emma Goldman as well as Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research (1995) and The Woman Who Walked Into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease (2008). She is a former Guggenheim fellow and is active on the board of the Hereditary Disease Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
1. On the Road to Topeka
2. Out of Brooklyn
3. Becoming Freudian
4. The Slap, Explained
5. Ex-Topekan
6. Losing the Road Map
7. Freudian Fathers and (Proto-) Feminist Daughters
8. Revelations
9. The Big Freedom
10. (A) Challenging Fate
11. Workshops of the Possible
12. Making Friends, Making Love
13. Retelling Lives
14. Life Underwater
15. The Old Leaf
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Sayings of Milton Wexler
Published Papers and Reviews by Milton Wexler
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index