CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction—Political Freud

1. Psychoanalysis and the Spirit of Capitalism

2. Beyond the Blues: The Racial Unconscious and Collective Memory

3. In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Rereading Freud’s Moses

4. The Ego at War: From the Death Instinct to Precarious Life

5. From the Maturity Ethic to the Psychology of Power: The New Left, Feminism, and the Return to “Social Reality”

Afterword—Freud in the Twenty-first Century

Notes

Index