Analyzing Abortion

• Utgivningsdatum: 2027-04-28
• Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Psychoanalysis and Women Series
• Antal sidor: 242
• Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• ISBN: 9781041110354

• Kulturvetenskap
• Genusvetenskap
• Freudiansk psykologi
• Psykoterapi som behandlingsmetod

Shelley Nathans, Ph.D., is on the faculties of The Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and The Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group. She teaches internationally and writes about psychoanalytic couple psychotherapy, including two edited books, Couples on the Couch (2017) and More About Couples on the Couch (2023). She is in private practice in Oakland, California.Lynne Zeavin, Psy.D, is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst in practice in New York City, and a Training/Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. An Associate Editor of JAPA, she writes on the maternal, misogyny, loss, and various aspects of Kleinian theory. She co-edited Hating, Abhorring, and Wishing to Destroy (2022) and With Climate in Mind (2025).

'This extraordinary volume is a complex and persuasive rejoinder to the devastating Dobbs decision that withdrew the constitutional right to seek an abortion. A cluster of socially engaged psychoanalysts here appear together with sociologists and legal scholars to respond to the assertion of state power over pregnancy. A brilliant feature of this moving volume is that it foregrounds the psychological and political repercussions for women whose autonomy anddignity have been abrogated by state powers that seek to heighten their regulatory and disciplinary power as they construct a new authoritarianism. One finds here acute discussions of guilt, shame, sorrow, and rage, but also a new perspective on temporality from a psychosocial perspective, along with a sharp critique of the subordination of women and the assault on reproductive justice across class lines. A fierce and compelling collaboration and a 'must read' for all those who, once again, have to break the silence.'Judith Butler, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor in the Graduate Division, University of California, Berkeley'Analyzing Abortion brings together an extraordinary array of voices - clinical, historical, legal, and deeply personal - to illuminate what is at stake when reproductive freedom is under attack. Its great strength lies in offering a truly global perspective, bringing together vital insights from South Korea to Iran, Poland to South Africa, Argentina to China. This interdisciplinary vision, weaving together psychoanalysis, law, history, and testimony, reveals how deeply reproductive freedom shapes psychic life everywhere. A courageous, nuanced, and essential book.'Virginia Ungar, M.D. Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association; Past IPA President (2017-2021)'This vital and timely collection demonstrates what psychoanalysis can contribute to our understanding of the most urgent social conflicts of our time. At a moment when women’s reproductive freedoms in the United States have been dismantled and the right to abortion can no longer be taken for granted, this book could hardly be more necessary. Reproductive politics cannot be understood through law or medicine alone: it is also shaped by unconscious fantasies of maternal power and control. Nathans and Zeavin have assembled a remarkably wide-ranging volume without sacrificing its intellectual coherence. Across diverse historical and political contexts, the contributors reveal how psychic life enters public life, and how fear, misogyny and the desire to control women’s bodies become embedded in institutions and law. The result is a powerful and compelling case for psychoanalysis as a form of social as well as individual inquiry, and an urgent reminder that hard-won freedoms must never be assumed to be secure. Essential reading.'Alessandra Lemma, Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society'Following the reversal of Roe and at a time when even to say the word “women” has become fraught, an international group of psychoanalysts set out to break a silence. In exceptional and exquisitely written chapters, they invite us to listen closely, to think with them about the different forms resistance can take, to acknowledge what caring for and loving children really entails, and to recognize the price that patriarchy exacts in its need to control women’s sexuality and reproductive lives. With a sense of urgency, Analyzing Abortion asks us to consider, what would it mean to know and to speak about what is going on in our midst.'Carol Gilligan, University Professor New York University.

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