Katja Guenther: 2 books
Localization and Its Discontents
A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Psychoanalysis and neurological medicine have promoted contrasting and seemingly irreconcilable notions of the modern self. Since Freud, psychoanalysts have relied on the spoken word in a therapeutic practice that has revolutionized our understanding of the mind. Neurologists and neurosurgeons, meanwhile,...
Making Their Place
Feminism After Socialism in Eastern Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
The collapse of state socialism in eastern and central Europe in 1989 had a dramatic impact on women. Witnessing the loss of state support for their economic activity, the curtailing of their reproductive rights, and the rise of gender ideologies that value women primarily as mothers and wives rather...