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Title

Inside/outside Nietzsche : psychoanalytic explorations / Eugene Victor Wolfenstein.

Author

Wolfenstein, E. Victor.

Publication

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000.

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Description

xi, 267 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• "Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, a distinguished social theorist and practicing psychoanalyst, focuses on the opposition between the principles of psychoanalytic theory and Nietzsche's concepts of the will to power and perspectivism. Through critical engagement with these Nietzschean concepts, Wolfenstein brings them into the purview of psychoanalytic theory and practice.".
• "Using this revised version of psychoanalytic theory, Wolfenstein then conducts a psychobiography of Nietzsche. He contends that Nietzsche philosophized from within a transitional space between the maternal and paternal extremes of the male imaginary, a space in which gender identity is notably unstable, and sublimity consorts with the most abject misery. This psychic location is the impetus for Nietzsche's conceptions of eternal return and the feminine.".
• "Finally, Wolfenstein explores Nietzsche's genealogy of morals from a psychoanalytic perspective and in the light of Nietzsche's psychobiography. He concludes that Nietzsche's revaluation of values leaves us painfully short on both love and compassion." "The book is also framed by a critical engagement with Michael Foucault's problematics of power/knowledge."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Psychoanalysis and social theory

Uniform Title

Psychoanalysis and social theory.

Subject

• Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900
• Psychoanalysis and philosophy
• Critical theory

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-257) and index.

Contents

1. Enter Nietzsche. I. Critical Theory in Hard Times. II. Michel Foucault against Critical Theory. III. Critical Theory against Michel Foucault -- 2. Overcoming Resistance. I. Prelude: The Magic Mountain. II. "This world is the will to power - and nothing besides!" III. Thought-Experiments -- 3. Very Few Rules to Guide. I. Truth, Interpretation, and the Will to Power. II. Perspectivism in Psychoanalytic Practice -- 4. "The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead" I. Time, Gender, and Transitional Space. II. Walking the Line. III. The Abyss. IV. You Can't Run Away from Yourself -- 5. Only the Lonely/"Woman as Such" I. Body Language. II. From "Woman and Child" to "Woman as Such" III. "For I love you, O eternity" IV. Ecce Homo -- 6. After Nietzsche. I. The Power of the Negative. II. Beneath Good and Evil. III. Hegemony and Resistance.

ISBN

0801437032 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99045645

OCLC

• ocm42437078
• SCSB-3837873

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Columbia University Libraries