Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction 1
4. I. CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS
5. 1. Fusion or Omnipotence? A Dialogue 23
6. 2. Hate, Aggression, and Recognition: Winnicott, Klein, and Honneth 51
7. 3. Narcissism and Critique: On Kohut’s Self Psychology 75
8. II. HISTORICAL ENCOUNTERS
9. 4. Progress and the Death Drive 109
10. 5. Transitional Objects, God, and Modeling the Commodity Form 135
11. 6 A “True-Enough Self ”: Winnicott, Object Relations Theory, and the Bases of Identity 159
12. III. POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS
13. 7. Intersubjectivity on the Couch: Recognition and Destruction in the Work of Jessica Benjamin 185
14. 8. Politics and the Fear of Breakdown 209
15. 9. Who Is the Perpetrator? The Missing Affect in Torture’s Violation of Human Dignity 235
16. Index 261