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The Anatomy of Prejudices

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The Anatomy of Prejudices

by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

Harvard University Press | February 19, 1998 | Trade Paperback

In this deeply thoughtful book, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl turns a critical lens on prejudice. Surveying the study of prejudice since World War II, Young-Bruehl suggests an approach that distinguishes between different types of prejudices, the people who hold them, the social and political settings that promote them, and the human needs they fulfill. Startling, challenging, and courageous, this work offers an unprecedented analysis of prejudice.

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First the slur, then the discussion: Was it blatant racism ot just a stupid joke? But do we really know what we're talking about--what prejudice is, how it works, that it penetrates even the way we speak of prejudice, question it, interpret it? In this deeply thoughtful book, Young-Bruehl turns a critical lens on what has been said about prejudice--and, more importantly, what has gone unsaid

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In this deeply thoughtful book, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl turns a critical lens on prejudice. Surveying the study of prejudice since World War II, Young-Bruehl suggests an approach that distinguishes between different types of prejudices, the people who hold them, the social and political settings that promote them, and the human needs they fulfill. Startling, challenging, and courageous, this work offers an unprecedented analysis of prejudice.

About the Author

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl is a psychotherapist at the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. She has written two well-known biographies, one of Hannah Arendt and one of Anna Freud, as well as Freud on Women, Creative Characters, and a collection of essays, Mind and the Body, and a novel, Vigil.

Trade Paperback

640 Pages, 6.38 x 9.25 x 1.55 in

February 19, 1998

Harvard University Press


0674031911
9780674031913

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Prologue

Introduction: Studying Prejudices

I. A Critique of Pure Overgeneralization

Theories of Prejudice: A Preliminary Classification

What Happened to the "Prejudiced Personality"

Sociology Surveys the American Dilemma

The Prejudice That Is Not One

The Homophobias

II. Starting Again: Prejudices--In the Plural

"Social Character" in Search of a Theory

Character Types and Their Ideologies of Desire

Origins and Developmental Lines: Children and Prejudice

Adolescence and the Aims of Hatreds

Shared Prejudices, Societal Styles

Constructing Ideal Types

The Body and Soul of Narcissism

III. Current Ideologies: The Victims Speak

Varieties of Silencing

On Resistance to Hysterical Repression

Feeling the Contradictions of Sexism and Being the Targets of Homophobias

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index



Prejudice against another group is quite different from preference for one''s own. Starting from this basic insight, Young-Bruehl develops a much needed inquiry of the ideologies of desire, where political theory meets psychoanalysis.

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