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100 1  Zaretsky, Eli 
245 10 Political Freud :|ba history /|cEli Zaretsky. 
260    New York :|bColumbia University Press,|c2015 
300    118p ;|c23cm. 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Table of Contents ; Acknowledgments; Introduction-
       Political Freud; 1. Psychoanalysis and the Spirit of 
       Capitalism; 2. Beyond the Blues: The Racial Unconscious 
       and Collective Memory; 3. In the Shadow of the Holocaust: 
       Rereading Freud's Moses; 4. The Ego at War: From the Death
       Instinct to Precarious Life ; 5. From the Maturity Ethic 
       to the Psychology of Power: The New Left, Feminism, and 
       the Return to "Social Reality"; Afterword-Freud in the 
       Twenty-first Century; Notes; Index. 
520    In this masterful psychological#x96;intellectual history, 
       Eli Zaretsky shows Freudianism to be something more than a
       method of psychotherapy. When considered alongside the 
       major struggles of the twentieth century, Freudianism 
       becomes a catalyst of the age. Political Freud is 
       Zaretsky's account of the way twentieth century radicals, 
       activists, and thinkers used Freudian thought to 
       understand the political developments of their century. 
       Through his reading, he shows the ongoing, formative power
       of Freudianism in contemporary times. The role played by 
       political Freudianism was chaotic and oftentimes