Eli Zaretsky
Stay(s) with the Research Group
15.09.-15.12.2016
Research focus, presentations and publications during stay
During his stay in Jena, Eli Zaretsky worked on a paper on ‘The Imperative of Growth’. In addition, in a number of colloquiua he discussed his texts on the American Left, the US presidential election and his current book ‘Political Freud’.
Selected Publications
Books
Political Freud: A History. Columbia University Press, 2015.
Why America Needs a Left: An Historical Argument. Cambridge; Polity Press, 2012.
Journals
“What is Political History,” Reviews in American History, Autumn, 2013
Rethinking the American Left,” Socialist Register, 2012 (German Translation: Merkur 2013)
“Psychoanalysis, Authoritarianism and the 1960s,” in Joy Damousi and Mariano Ben Plotkin, Psychoanalysis and Politics: Histories of Psychoanalysis under Conditions of Restricted Political Freedom, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
“Psychoanalysis, Vulnerability and War,” in Adrienne Harris, ed., First Do No Harm, New York: Routledge, 2010
“Narcissism, Personal Life and Identity: The Place of the 1960s in the History of Psychoanalysis,” Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 13, (94-104) 2008