Subject to Biography: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Writing Women's Lives

Abstract

Part 1 The practice of psychobiography: the biographer's empathy with her subject psychoanalytic reflections on creativity reflections on Anna Freud - a biography looking for Anna Freud's mother Anna Freud as a historian of psychoanalysis profile of Anna Freud as a latency woman a history of Freud biographies Hannah Arendt among feminists the exemplary independence of Hannah Arendt. Part 2 Feminism and psychoanalysis: rereading Freud on female development on psychoanalysis and feminism what happened to anorexie hysterique? feminism, psychoanalysis and anorexia nervosa gender and psychoanalysis what theories women want.