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Shaul Bar-Haim

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Description:The Maternalists is a study of the hitherto unexplored significance of utopian visions of the state as a maternal entity in mid-twentieth-century Britain. Demonstrating the affinities between welfarism, maternalism, and psychoanalysis, Shaul Bar-Haim suggests a new reading of the British welfare state as a political project.After the First World War, British doctors, social thinkers, educators, and policy makers became increasingly interested in the contemporary turn being made in psychoanalytic theory toward the role of motherhood in child development. These public figures used new notions of the maternal to criticize modern European culture, and especially its patriarchal domestic structure. This strand of thought was pioneered by figures who were well placed to disseminate their ideas into the higher echelons of British culture, education, and medical care. Figures such as the anthropologists Bronislaw Malinowski and Geza R�heim, and the psychiatrist Ian Suttie--to mention only a few of the maternalists discussed in the book--used psychoanalytic vocabulary to promote both imagined perceptions of motherhood and their idea of the real essence of the maternal. In the 1930s, as European fascism took hold, the maternal became a cultural discourse of both collective social anxieties and fantasies, as well as a central concept in many strands of radical, and even utopian, political thinking. During the Second World War, and even more so in the postwar era, psychoanalysts such as D. W. Winnicott and Michael Balint responded to the horrors of the war by drawing on interwar maternalistic thought, making a demand to maternalize British society, and providing postwar Britain with a new political idiom for defining the welfare state as a project of collective care.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State (Intellectual History of the Modern Age). To get started finding The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State (Intellectual History of the Modern Age), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The Maternalists is a study of the hitherto unexplored significance of utopian visions of the state as a maternal entity in mid-twentieth-century Britain. Demonstrating the affinities between welfarism, maternalism, and psychoanalysis, Shaul Bar-Haim suggests a new reading of the British welfare state as a political project.After the First World War, British doctors, social thinkers, educators, and policy makers became increasingly interested in the contemporary turn being made in psychoanalytic theory toward the role of motherhood in child development. These public figures used new notions of the maternal to criticize modern European culture, and especially its patriarchal domestic structure. This strand of thought was pioneered by figures who were well placed to disseminate their ideas into the higher echelons of British culture, education, and medical care. Figures such as the anthropologists Bronislaw Malinowski and Geza R�heim, and the psychiatrist Ian Suttie--to mention only a few of the maternalists discussed in the book--used psychoanalytic vocabulary to promote both imagined perceptions of motherhood and their idea of the real essence of the maternal. In the 1930s, as European fascism took hold, the maternal became a cultural discourse of both collective social anxieties and fantasies, as well as a central concept in many strands of radical, and even utopian, political thinking. During the Second World War, and even more so in the postwar era, psychoanalysts such as D. W. Winnicott and Michael Balint responded to the horrors of the war by drawing on interwar maternalistic thought, making a demand to maternalize British society, and providing postwar Britain with a new political idiom for defining the welfare state as a project of collective care.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State (Intellectual History of the Modern Age). To get started finding The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State (Intellectual History of the Modern Age), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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