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The Maternalists - Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State (Hardcover)
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The Maternalists - Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State (Hardcover)
Series: Intellectual History of the Modern Age
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The Maternalists is a study of the hitherto unexplored significance
of utopian visions of the state as a maternal entity in
mid-twentieth century Britain. Demonstrating the affinities between
welfarism, maternalism, and psychoanalysis, Shaul Bar-Haim suggests
a new reading of the British welfare state as a political project.
After the First World War, British doctors, social thinkers,
educators, and policy makers became increasingly interested in the
contemporary turn being made in psychoanalytic theory toward the
role of motherhood in child development. These public figures used
new notions of the "maternal" to criticize modern European culture,
and especially its patriarchal domestic structure. This strand of
thought was pioneered by figures who were well placed to
disseminate their ideas into the higher echelons of British
culture, education, and medical care. Figures such as the
anthropologists Bronislaw Malinowski and Geza Roheim, and the
psychiatrist Ian Suttie-to mention only a few of the "maternalists"
discussed in the book-used psychoanalytic vocabulary to promote
both imagined perceptions of motherhood and their idea of the
"real" essence of the "maternal." In the 1930s, as European fascism
took hold, the "maternal" became a cultural discourse of both
collective social anxieties and fantasies, as well as a central
concept in many strands of radical, and even utopian, political
thinking. During the Second World War, and even more so in the
postwar era, psychoanalysts such as D. W. Winnicott and Michael
Balint responded to the horrors of the war by drawing on interwar
maternalistic thought, making a demand to "maternalize" British
society, and providing postwar Britain with a new political idiom
for defining the welfare state as a project of collective care.
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