EUGENE VICTOR WOLFENSTEIN



B.A., Columbia College, 1962, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa.
M.A. & Ph.D. in Politics, Princeton University, 1964 & 1965.
Professor of Political Science, UCLA.
Ph.D. in Psychoanalysis, Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, 1984.
Member of the Faculty, Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, 1988 – 2004.

Interests:

     History of Political Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice, Critical Theory, Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theory.

I. Books

  1. The Revolutionary Personality. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1967. [Portuguese edition, 1968: Paedos Press, Buenos Aires, Argentina.]
  2. Personality and Politics. Los Angeles: Dickenson Press, 1969.
  3. 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].
  4. Psychoanalytic-Marxism: Groundwork. London & New York: Free Association Books and Guilford Publications, 1993.
  5. Inside/Outside Nietzsche: Psychoanalytic Explorations. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.
  6. A Gift of the Spirit: Reading THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK. NY: Cornell University Press, 2007.

II. Articles and Book Chapters, 1996 - 2006

  1. "Psychoanalytic-Marxism in an Age of Neo-Fascism," in Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Vol. 1, #1, 1996.
  2. "'For I Love You, O Eternity': Time and Gender in Nietzsche's Philosophy," in Gender & Psychoanalysis, Vol. 1, #2, 1996.
  3. "Psychoanalysis in Political Theory," in Political Theory, Vol. 24, #4, 1996.
  4. "Michel Foucault and Psychoanalytic-Marxism," in South Atlantic Quarterly, spring, 1998.
  5. "Reflections of Malcolm X and Black Feminism," in Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Volume 3, # 2, 1998.
  6. "Black Liberation and the Jewish Question," in Marcus & Helmreich, eds. Blacks and Jews on the Couch. Praeger-Greenwood Publishers, 1999.
  7. "On the Road Not Taken: ‘Revolt and Revenge’ in W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk,” in Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Volume 5, #1, 2000.
  8. "New Souls for Old?: Race, Gender, and the Transformational Effects of Social Movements,” in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Volume 1, #4, 2000.
  9. "Race, Rage, and Oedipus in Ralph W. Ellison’s Invisible Man," in Donald Moss, ed., Hatred in the First Person Plural, Other Press, 2003.
  10. (With Adrienne Harris), Introduction, Symposium on Janice Haaken, Pillar of Salt: Gender, Memory, and the Perils of Looking Back, in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Volume 4, #2, 2003.
  11. “Recognition and The Souls of Black Folk,” in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Volume 7, #s 3-4, Summer/Fall 2005.
  12. “Still Crazy After All These Years: ‘The Paranoid Style in American Politics’” in The International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 3, #2, 2006.
  13. Introduction, Rountable on Patricia Hill Collins, Black Sexual Politics, in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, forthcoming.

III. Courses/Teaching

A. Courses

PS 10. Introduction to Political Theory
PS 111A. Ancient Political Theory
PS 111C. Late Modern and Contemporary Political Theory
PS 114D. African-American Freedom Narratives
PS 114 E. Malcolm X and Black Liberation
PS 116A. Marxist Political Theory
Undergraduate Honors Seminars, topics variable
Recent Graduate Seminars: Nietzsche, Foucault, and Feminism; Power, Pleasure and Punishment in Nietzsche, Freud, and Foucault; Reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Becoming Nietzsche (The Middle Period); Reading The Phenomenology of Spirit; Reading Capital, Volume I. Reading Race with W. E. B. Du Bois.

B. Teaching

Winter, 1989, PS111A syllabus included in Allan Kornberg, ed., Political Science Reading Lists and Course Outlines, I: Political Philosophy. Durham: Eno Press, 1989.

Winter, 1991, PS 10 syllabus included in Peter Stillman, ed., APSA Political Science Course Syllabus Project: Introduction to Political Theory. APSA: 1991.

Recipient of the 1991 UCLA Mortar Board "Faculty Excellence Award," given in recognition of "dedication to teaching and the pursuit of academic freedom.”

Recipient of the 1992-93 Outstanding Teacher Award, Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute.

Recipient of a UCLA Harriet and Charles Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award (with special mention for distinction in graduate teaching), 1994.

Recipient of a Pi Sigma Alpha Faculty Appreciation Award, 2001, 2002, 2004.

Recipient of an Academic Advancement Program Faculty Recognition Award, 2002.






Website last updated: January 11, 2007