Illusions of a Future: Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire

by Kate Schechter

Book Overview

A pioneering ethnography of psychoanalysis, Illusions of a Future explores the political economy of private therapeutic labor within industrialized medicine. Focusing on psychoanalysis in Chicago, a historically important location in the development and institutionalization of psychoanalysis in the United States, Kate Schechter examines the nexus of theory, practice, and institutional form in the original instituting of psychoanalysis, its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822357089
• ISBN13: 9780822357087
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"