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Review Sebastian Kraemer and Jane Roberts (Eds), The politics of attachment: Towards a secure society. Preface by Patricia Hewitt. London: Free Association Books, 1996. The urge to integrate the psychoanalytic perspective into political theory has produced many distinguished and complex contributions. In the earliest phase, the late 1920s and the 1930s, most authors were attracted by the possi- bility of relating the 'materialism' of the unconscious to theories of historical materialism and the dialectic, and the works thus mainly dealt with psycho- analysis and Marxism (Bernfeld, 1925; Fromm, 1932; Reich, 1934; Osborn, 1937). The rococo theoretical style of these early papers did not, however, prevent the appearance of some persuasive detailed work, involving themes which in later decades attachment theorists would find themselves defending against critiques by the psychoanalytic orthodoxy: 1 the importance of socio-culturaI context in determining the precise form of psychic development in interaction with instinct, and 2 the surprising prevalence of the tendency to deny rather than exaggerate abuse perpetrated by those with power. The next phase, from the mid-1950s to the 1970s, continued the focus on liberation from repression of sexual libido, the most illustrious proponent being Herbert Marcuse (1955) who became a key figure-head of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Attachment & Human Development Taylor & Francis

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Attachment & Human Development , Volume 1 (2): 8 – Sep 1, 1999
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Sebastian Kraemer and Jane Roberts (Eds), The politics of attachment: Towards a secure society. Preface by Patricia Hewitt. London: Free Association Books, 1996. The urge to integrate the psychoanalytic perspective into political theory has produced many distinguished and complex contributions. In the earliest phase, the late 1920s and the 1930s, most authors were attracted by the possi- bility of relating the 'materialism' of the unconscious to theories of historical materialism...
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Sebastian Kraemer and Jane Roberts (Eds), The politics of attachment: Towards a secure society. Preface by Patricia Hewitt. London: Free Association Books, 1996. The urge to integrate the psychoanalytic perspective into political theory has produced many distinguished and complex contributions. In the earliest phase, the late 1920s and the 1930s, most authors were attracted by the possi- bility of relating the 'materialism' of the unconscious to theories of historical materialism and the dialectic, and the works thus mainly dealt with psycho- analysis and Marxism (Bernfeld, 1925; Fromm, 1932; Reich, 1934; Osborn, 1937). The rococo theoretical style of these early papers did not, however, prevent the appearance of some persuasive detailed work, involving themes which in later decades attachment theorists would find themselves defending against critiques by the psychoanalytic orthodoxy: 1 the importance of socio-culturaI context in determining the precise form of psychic development in interaction with instinct, and 2 the surprising prevalence of the tendency to deny rather than exaggerate abuse perpetrated by those with power. The next phase, from the mid-1950s to the 1970s, continued the focus on liberation from repression of sexual libido, the most illustrious proponent being Herbert Marcuse (1955) who became a key figure-head of

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