The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State Bar-Haim Shaul
The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State Bar-Haim Shaul The Maternalists is a study of the hitherto unexplored significance of utopian visions of the state as a…
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The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State Bar-Haim Shaul
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. These public figures used new notions of the maternal to criticize modern European culture, and especially its patriarchal domestic structure. 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.
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
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