Eugene Victor Wolfenstein
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Eugene Victor Wolfenstein (July 9, 1940–December 15, 2010) was an American
Early life and education
Wolfenstein graduated with his
Phi Beta Kappa
.
Wolfenstein received his
UCLA
.
He also completed a Ph.D. in psychoanalysis from the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute in 1984. He was the member of the faculty of the institute from 1988 to 2004. Moreover, he was in private practice from the time he received his degree up to the time of his death.
Work
Wolfenstein worked in the
African American culture and social movements. In his book The Victims of Democracy: Malcolm X and the Black Revolution, he used a theory of the interaction between social classes and psychological groups to analyze white racism and the black liberation struggle. He developed a more general version of this theory in Psychoanalytic-Marxism: Groundwork (1993) and refined it further through engagement with Nietzsche’s philosophy in Inside/Outside Nietzsche: Psychoanalytic Explorations (2000). These later works add a concern with gender identity to the earlier agenda. His research is in the area of African-American narrative. A Gift of the Spirit: Reading THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK (2007) offered a sustained reconstruction of W. E. B. Du Bois
’s canonical text. A further study entitled “Talking Books: Toni Morrison Among the Ancestors” was published right before his death.
He was a professor at UCLA. At the
undergraduate
level, he taught the lower division Introduction to Political Theory, along with Ancient Political Theory, African-American Freedom Narratives, Malcolm X and Black Liberation, Marxist Political Theory, and an occasional seminar on Platonic Dialectic and Spiritual Liberation. At the graduate level, he focused on major works of Du Bois, Foucault, Freud, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche, along with the related critical literatures.
His main interests were History of Political Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice, Critical Theory, Critical Race Theory and Feminist Theory.
Bibliography
- The Revolutionary Personality. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1967. [Portuguese edition, 1968: Paedos Press, Buenos Aires, Argentina.]
- Personality and Politics. Los Angeles: Dickenson Press, 1969.
- The Victims of Democracy: Malcolm X and the Black Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981 [Paperback editions: Free Association Books, 1990; Guilford Publications, 1993].
- Psychoanalytic-Marxism: Groundwork. London & New York: Free Association Books and Guilford Publications, 1993.
- Inside/Outside Nietzsche: Psychoanalytic Explorations. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.
- A Gift of the Spirit: Reading the Souls of Black Folk. NY: Cornell University Press, 2007.
References
- ^ Lee, Cynthia (December 16, 2010). "Political scientist Eugene V. Wolfenstein is dead at 70". UCLA Today. Archived from the original on March 2, 2011. Retrieved December 17, 2010.
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