Bringing Up War-Babies - The Wartime Child in Women’s Writing and Psychoanalysis at Mid-Century

The figure of the wartime child in the mid-twentieth century unsettles and disturbs. This book employs a range of material – biographical, literary and historical – to chart some of the surprising and unanticipated crossovers between women’s writing and early psychoanalysis in the years of the Second World War and the decades before and after. <