Political Freud

Much of twentieth-century political thought, ideologies, and movements cannot be understood without grasping the influence of psychoanalysis. Critical theory, postcolonial understandings of race, interpretations of the Holocaust and war, feminism, and the New Left all drew on Freud in both high theory and everyday understanding. In Political Freud, Zaretsky narrates the twentieth- century story with verve and insight and shows how the influences continue into the twenty-first. Craig Calhoun, director, London School of Economics and Political Science