Jerome C. Wakefield

Attachment, Sexuality, Power (eBook, ePUB)

Oedipal Theory as Regulator of Family Affection in Freud's Case of Little Hans

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Oedipal theory achieved prominence because its implications for family dynamics supported changing social values. Wakefield identifies a previously overlooked reason for Hans's anxiety-his father attempted to protect Hans from his supposed Oedipal desires by separating Hans from his mother. Thus, Wakefield argues, the father's exercise of power based on his belief in Oedipal theory, not an actual Oedipus complex, caused Hans's vulnerability to anxiety-revealing the theory's potential to cause harm by distancing children from their parents, even as such distancing made the theory socially appealing.

This book's novel and carefully documented articulation of the mechanisms of power by which Oedipal theory exerts its influence on family life will be of interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists alike, and essential for scholars in the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy of science and the history of psychiatry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136726958
• Artikelnr.: 65087163

Autorenporträt

Jerome C. Wakefield is university professor, professor of Social Work, affiliate professor of Philosophy, professor of the Conceptual Foundations of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry (2007-2019), associate faculty in the Center for Bioethics in the School of Global Public Health, and honorary faculty in the Psychoanalytic Association of New York Affiliated with NYU Grossman School of Medicine, at New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Oedipal Theory and Family Power 2. The Graf Family's
Dynamics as Background to the Little Hans Case 3. Little Hans and
Attachment Theory: Bowlby's Interpretation Reconsidered 4. Oedipal
Power/Knowledge: The Sexualization of Attachment and the Regulation of
Mother-Son Affection 5. Bowlby Versus the Spoiling Theory: Understanding
the Prohibitory Nature of Oedipal Power/Knowledge 6. Olga Honig's
Resistance to Oedipal Power/Knowledge 7. Trauma Theory and the Perpetuation
of Mother-Bashing: Did Olga Honig's Abusive Parenting Cause Hans's Phobia?
8. The Social Context of the Oedipal Theory: Children as a Challenge to
Emerging Ideals of Marital Harmony 9. Bed Time: Oedipal Power/Knowledge,
Cosleeping, and the Modern Struggle Over the Child's Sharing of the Marital
Bed 10. Family Systems, Lacan, DSM, and Looping: Four Alternative
Perspectives on Little Hans 11. Final Thoughts: Oedipal Power/KNowledge and
the Future of Psychoanalysis