Eugene Victor Wolfenstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 3627797 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eugene Victor Wolfenstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eugene Victor |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolfenstein |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFENSTEIN E V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Gift of the Spirit: Reading "The Souls of Black Folk"
In A Gift of the Spirit, Eugene Victor Wolfenstein offers a reading of W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk aimed at demonstrating its organic unity and coherence. He takes as his interpretive key the experience of the color line with which Du Bois's narrative begins—the incident from his youth in which a white girl refused his offer of a visiting card. Wolfenstein contends that this instance of misrecognition makes visible an aesthetic and…
Recognition andThe Souls of Black Folks
This brief essay forwards three propositions. First, The Souls of Black Folks (1903, 1999; hereafter Souls) has a greater unity and coherence than is usually recognized. In elucidating this view of
Introduction to Roundtable on Pillar of Salt
(2003). Introduction to Roundtable on Pillar of Salt. Studies in Gender and Sexuality: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 150-158
Inside/Outside Nietzsche: Psychoanalytic Explorations
Friedrich Nietzsche is both subject and interlocutor in this innovative study. The book mirrors the psychoanalytic situation, mediating between the philosophical world that Nietzsche created for himself and the external world challenged by his philosophy.Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, a distinguished social theorist and practicing psychoanalyst, focuses on the opposition between the principles of psychoanalytic theory and Nietzsche's concepts of the …
New Souls for Old? Race, Gender, and the Transformational Effects or Social Movements
Black feminist writing has alerted us to the interplay of racial and gender identity within the black liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Elaine Brown's A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story permits investigation of these interpersonal and intrapsychic dynamics in the instance of the Black Panther Party. Of special interest is the complex role played by masculine introjects in Brown's struggle for individual and collective self-definiti…
Michel Foucault and Psychoanalytic-Marxism
Research Article| April 01 1998 Michel Foucault and Psychoanalytic-Marxism Eugene Victor Wolfenstein Eugene Victor Wolfenstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1998) 97 (2): 361–389. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-97-2-361 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Eugene Victor Wolfenstein; Michel Foucault and Psychoanalytic-Marxism. Sout…
Books in Review
Mr. Moneybags Meets the Rat Man: Marx and Freud on the Meaning of Money
equation = feces = penis and thus signifies sadomasochistic relationships. In both instances the analysis of money reveals failures of mutual recognition. These failures of recognition, and likewise the meaning of money, originate in the interplay between capitalist social relationships and the psychodynamics of the paranoid-schizoid position
Psychoanalytic Marxism
Melanie Klein and Critical Social Theory. C. Fred Alford
The Victims of Democracy: Malcolm X and the Black Revolution
This unique psychobiographical study integrates a wide and subtle view of the history of white racism and the black liberation movement with a deep and sensitive understanding of the inner world of Malcolm X. Eugene Victor Wolfenstein is a critical social theorist and a practicing psychoanalyst who argues that racism must be analyzed within a personal as well as a political context. Drawing from The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm's published…
Race, Racism and Racial Liberation
HT HE PROBLEM of twentieth century is problem of color-line relation of darker to lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and islands of sea.' So wrote W. E. B. DuBois in 1903, and subsequent history has proved that he was no false prophet. Yet viewing phenomenon of race from an abstract, anthropological perspective, it is not clear why color line should be a problem. Race is a natural or anthropological category which, in itself, is …
Race, Racism and Racial Liberation
Neurosis and Civilization: A Marxist/Freudian Synthesis, by Michael Schneider
The Revolutionary Ascetic: Evolution of a Political Type, by Bruce Mazlish
Journal Article The Revolutionary Ascetic: Evolution of a Political Type, by Bruce Mazlish Get access The Revolutionary Ascetic: Evolution of a Political Type by Bruce Mazlish. New York, Basic Books, 1976.–viii, 261 pp. $21.95. Eugene Victor Wolfenstein Eugene Victor Wolfenstein University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 91, Issue 3, Fall 1976,…
The Two Wars of Lyndon Johnson
Psyche behind political man
Mr. Moneybags Meets the Rat Man: Marx and Freud on the Meaning of Money
equation = feces = penis and thus signifies sadomasochistic relationships. In both instances the analysis of money reveals failures of mutual recognition. These failures of recognition, and likewise the meaning of money, originate in the interplay between capitalist social relationships and the psychodynamics of the paranoid-schizoid position
New Souls for Old? Race, Gender, and the Transformational Effects or Social Movements
Black feminist writing has alerted us to the interplay of racial and gender identity within the black liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Elaine Brown's A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story permits investigation of these interpersonal and intrapsychic dynamics in the instance of the Black Panther Party. Of special interest is the complex role played by masculine introjects in Brown's struggle for individual and collective self-definiti…
Books in Review
Neurosis and Civilization: A Marxist/Freudian Synthesis, by Michael Schneider
The Revolutionary Ascetic: Evolution of a Political Type, by Bruce Mazlish
Journal Article The Revolutionary Ascetic: Evolution of a Political Type, by Bruce Mazlish Get access The Revolutionary Ascetic: Evolution of a Political Type by Bruce Mazlish. New York, Basic Books, 1976.–viii, 261 pp. $21.95. Eugene Victor Wolfenstein Eugene Victor Wolfenstein University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 91, Issue 3, Fall 1976,…
Psyche behind political man
The Two Wars of Lyndon Johnson
The Revolutionary Ascetic: Evolution of a Political Type, by Bruce Mazlish
Journal Article The Revolutionary Ascetic: Evolution of a Political Type, by Bruce Mazlish Get access The Revolutionary Ascetic: Evolution of a Political Type by Bruce Mazlish. New York, Basic Books, 1976.–viii, 261 pp. $21.95. Eugene Victor Wolfenstein Eugene Victor Wolfenstein University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 91, Issue 3, Fall 1976,…
Race, Racism and Racial Liberation
HT HE PROBLEM of twentieth century is problem of color-line relation of darker to lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and islands of sea.' So wrote W. E. B. DuBois in 1903, and subsequent history has proved that he was no false prophet. Yet viewing phenomenon of race from an abstract, anthropological perspective, it is not clear why color line should be a problem. Race is a natural or anthropological category which, in itself, is …
Race, Racism and Racial Liberation
Neurosis and Civilization: A Marxist/Freudian Synthesis, by Michael Schneider
The Victims of Democracy: Malcolm X and the Black Revolution
This unique psychobiographical study integrates a wide and subtle view of the history of white racism and the black liberation movement with a deep and sensitive understanding of the inner world of Malcolm X. Eugene Victor Wolfenstein is a critical social theorist and a practicing psychoanalyst who argues that racism must be analyzed within a personal as well as a political context. Drawing from The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm's published…
Melanie Klein and Critical Social Theory. C. Fred Alford
Mr. Moneybags Meets the Rat Man: Marx and Freud on the Meaning of Money
equation = feces = penis and thus signifies sadomasochistic relationships. In both instances the analysis of money reveals failures of mutual recognition. These failures of recognition, and likewise the meaning of money, originate in the interplay between capitalist social relationships and the psychodynamics of the paranoid-schizoid position
Psychoanalytic Marxism
Books in Review
Michel Foucault and Psychoanalytic-Marxism
Research Article| April 01 1998 Michel Foucault and Psychoanalytic-Marxism Eugene Victor Wolfenstein Eugene Victor Wolfenstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1998) 97 (2): 361–389. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-97-2-361 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Eugene Victor Wolfenstein; Michel Foucault and Psychoanalytic-Marxism. Sout…
Inside/Outside Nietzsche: Psychoanalytic Explorations
Friedrich Nietzsche is both subject and interlocutor in this innovative study. The book mirrors the psychoanalytic situation, mediating between the philosophical world that Nietzsche created for himself and the external world challenged by his philosophy.Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, a distinguished social theorist and practicing psychoanalyst, focuses on the opposition between the principles of psychoanalytic theory and Nietzsche's concepts of the …
New Souls for Old? Race, Gender, and the Transformational Effects or Social Movements
Black feminist writing has alerted us to the interplay of racial and gender identity within the black liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Elaine Brown's A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story permits investigation of these interpersonal and intrapsychic dynamics in the instance of the Black Panther Party. Of special interest is the complex role played by masculine introjects in Brown's struggle for individual and collective self-definiti…
Introduction to Roundtable on Pillar of Salt
(2003). Introduction to Roundtable on Pillar of Salt. Studies in Gender and Sexuality: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 150-158
Recognition andThe Souls of Black Folks
This brief essay forwards three propositions. First, The Souls of Black Folks (1903, 1999; hereafter Souls) has a greater unity and coherence than is usually recognized. In elucidating this view of
A Gift of the Spirit: Reading "The Souls of Black Folk"
In A Gift of the Spirit, Eugene Victor Wolfenstein offers a reading of W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk aimed at demonstrating its organic unity and coherence. He takes as his interpretive key the experience of the color line with which Du Bois's narrative begins—the incident from his youth in which a white girl refused his offer of a visiting card. Wolfenstein contends that this instance of misrecognition makes visible an aesthetic and…
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