Article
Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (2008) 13, 94–104. doi:10.1057/palgrave.pcs.2100151
Narcissism, Personal Life and Identity: The Place of the 1960s in the History of Psychoanalysis
Eli Zaretsky1
1Committee on Historical Studies, New School for Social Research, 80 Fifth Avenue, New York,NY, USA
Correspondence: Eli Zaretsky, New School for Social Research, 65 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, USA. E-mail: elizaretsky@earthlink.net
Abstract
This article explores the role played by psychoanalysis in the student, women's and gay movements of the 1960s as well as exploring the impact that these movements had on the transformation of psychoanalysis. It concludes that the 1960s were a turning point in the history of psychoanalysis, transforming it into an intersubjective, trauma-based culturally oriented theory.
Keywords:
narcissism, self, object, unconscious, New Left