Object-Choice (All You Need Is Love ...): On Mating Strategies and a Fragment of a Freud Biography (All You Need Is Love... : On Mating Strategies & A Fragment of a Freud Biography) - Hardcover

Theweleit, Klaus

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0860914720 ISBN 13: 9780860914723

Publisher: Verso Books, 1994

Synopsis

Who do we choose when we fall in love? How do we make the love object into what we want? This work brings together social theory, history, pop culture, autobiographical reflection and psychoanalysis in order to address these questions. The author looks at a number of relationships, such as: Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville; and the triangle of Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger and Elfriede Heidegger. But the core of the study is Freud himself and his choice of wife. Theweleit examines Freud's 1500 love letters to his fiancee and reviews his relationships with the female patients who became his helpers in the construction of psychoanalysis.

About this title

About the Author

Klaus Theweleit was born in 1942 In 1977-78 he published the two volumes of "Male Fantasies," now recognized as a pre-eminent work on the body, war and fascism. In 1990 he published "Orpheus (und) Eurydike," the first volume of "The Book of Kings," an examination of Western art through male artists' relationship with women.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0860914720
• ISBN 13: 9780860914723
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 124