Transitional Subjects: Critical Theory and Object Relations

Published by Columbia University Press 2019

Transitional Subjects

Critical Theory and Object Relations

Edited by: Amy Allen and Brian O'Connor
With contributions by: Axel Honneth , Joel Whitebook , C. Fred Alford , Alessandro Ferrera , Amy Allen , Owen Hulatt , James Martel , Johanna Meehan , Noëlle McAfee and Sara Beardsworth

Volume 67 in the series New Directions in Critical Theory

https://doi.org/10.7312/alle18318

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Allen Amy :

Amy Allen (PhD, Philosophy, Northwestern) is Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and head of the Philosophy Department at the Pennsylvania State University. Her publications include The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (Columbia, 2016) and The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory (Columbia, 2007). She is also the editor of the Columbia series New Directions in Critical Theory. She specializes in critical social theory, feminist theory, and 20th-century continental philosophy.O'Connor Brian :

Brian O'Connor (PhD, Philosophy, Oxford) is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin. He is the author of Idleness: A Philosophical Essay (Princeton, 2018), Adorno (Routledge, 2013), and Adorno's Negative Dialectic: Philosophy and the Possibility of a Critical Rationality (MIT, 2004), the editor of The Adorno Reader (Blackwell, 2000), and the coeditor (with Georg Mohr) of German Idealism: An Anthology and Guide (Chicago, 2007). His research focuses on critical theory and German idealism.Allen Amy :

Amy Allen (PhD, Philosophy, Northwestern) is Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and head of the Philosophy Department at the Pennsylvania State University. Her publications include The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (Columbia, 2016) and The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory (Columbia, 2007). She is also the editor of the Columbia series New Directions in Critical Theory. She specializes in critical social theory, feminist theory, and 20th-century continental philosophy.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).

Reviews

Jamieson Webster, author of Conversion Disorder:
The essays in Transitional Subjects explain recent changes in Freudian psychoanalytic theory by investigating the shift toward a contemporary object-relational perspective. The political connections drawn from each paper are powerful, situating critical theory within capitalism and the various political aporias of everyday life.

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Introduction Allen Amy and O’Connor Brian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS
1. Fusion or Omnipotence? A Dialogue Honneth Axel and Whitebook Joel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2. Hate, Aggression, and Recognition: Winnicott, Klein, and Honneth Alford C. Fred Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
3. Narcissism and Critique: On Kohut’s Self Psychology Ferrara Alessandro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
II. HISTORICAL ENCOUNTERS
4. Progress and the Death Drive Allen Amy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
5. Transitional Objects, God, and Modeling the Commodity Form Hulatt Owen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
6 A “True-Enough Self ”: Winnicott, Object Relations Theory, and the Bases of Identity Martel James Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
III. POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS
7. Intersubjectivity on the Couch: Recognition and Destruction in the Work of Jessica Benjamin Meehan Johanna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
8. Politics and the Fear of Breakdown McAfee Noëlle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
9. Who Is the Perpetrator? The Missing Affect in Torture’s Violation of Human Dignity Beardsworth Sara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

eBook

Published: July 22, 2019
ISBN: 9780231544788