| Object-Choice (All You Need Is Love... : on Mating Strategies & a Fragment of a Freud Biography) | Hardcoverby Klaus Theweleit (Author), Malcolm Green (Translator)
| List Price: | $55.00 | |
| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Verso Books | | Page Count: | 160 Pages | | Publication Date: | June 01, 1994 |
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Product Description
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. |
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Good, solid Theweleit. by Robert P. Beveridge (Cleveland, OH)  4 Stars
July 10, 2007
Klaus Theweleit, Object-Choice: All You Need Is Love... (Verso, 1990)
Klaus Theweleit is one of those guys you probably should be reading if you have any interest in philosophy; very few people in the English-speaking world, however, have. This no doubt partially because only two translations of Theweleit have appeared in English, Male Fantasies (only volume I of which is available these days, for some silly reason; I've been trying to get hold of vol. II for a decade without success) and Object-Choice. No matter that the latter is a smaller piece of a draft of a much larger work, Theweleit's Freud bio, which is in turn part of a much large work. Will we ever see it? Who knows? But at least you can pick this up, which is roughly equivalent to being able to rent Matthew Barney's The Order without the rest of the Cremaster Cycle being available.
Whereas Male Fantasies is a monstrous, imposing doorstop of a book, Object-Choice is slight, coming in at 112 pages. It is also more of a personal project, or so it seems from reading this one; it could be the fog of memory (I read Male Fantasies a decade ago), but I remember that one being drier, fuller of facts and footnotes. No less readable, mind you, I love it. But Object-Choice almost seems like Theweleit sitting across the table from you at a party, tossing back handfuls of peanuts while poking at Freud's theories of object-choice, relating them all back to events taking place in Freud's life while he was coming up with them.
As a side note, the back copy makes great fanfare of the idea that all this started with Freud's fifteen hundred letters to his future wife Martha Bernays, in the course of which she became the first subject of Freudian psychoanalysis; the text itself, however, only mentions that in passing, spending more time focusing on Freud's relationship with Carl and Emma Jung.
In any case, you'll probably either latch onto Theweleit or hate him. But you can't do either until you read him. *** ½
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SIMILAR PRODUCTS |
| Male Fantasies, Vol. 2: Male Bodies - Psychoanalyzing the White Terror (Theory and History of Literature, Vol. 23)
by Klaus Theweleit (Author), Erica Carter (Translator), Chris Turner (Translator), Anson Rabinbach (Translator)
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| Male Fantasies, Vol. 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History (Theory and History of Literature, Vol. 22) (Theory and History of Literature)
by Klaus Theweleit (Author), Chris Turner (Translator), Stephen Conway (Translator), Erica Carter (Translator), Barbara Ehrenreich (Translator)
First of this two-volume work providing an imaginative interpretation of the image of women in the collective unconscious of the fascist "warrior" through a study of the fantasies of the men centrally involved in the rise of Nazism.
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