Female Sexuality: The Early Psychoanalytic Controversies

ISBN-13: 9780367324513 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 320 str.

Russell Grigg

Opis

The papers collected together in this volume laid the groundwork for contemporary psychoanalytic women's studies and gender theory. They cover a period from June 1917, when Johan van Ophuijsen presented his paper on the masculinity complex in women to the Dutch Psycho-Analytical Society, to April 1935, when Ernest Jones read a paper on early fem

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Preface -- Introduction -- Contributions to the Masculinity Complex in Women -- The Castration Complex -- Manifestations of the Female Castration Complex -- Origins and Growth of Object Love -- The Psychology of Women in Relation to the Functions of Reproduction -- The Flight from Womanhood: The Masculinity-Complex in Women, as Viewed by Men and Women -- A Contribution to the Problem of Libidinal Development of the Genital Phase in Girls -- The Genesis of the Feminine Super-Ego -- The Early Development of Female Sexuality -- Early Stages of the Oedipus Conflict -- The Evolution of the Oedipus Complex in Women -- Womanliness as a Masquerade -- The Significance of Masochism in the Mental Life of Women -- The Pregenital Antecedents of the Oedipus Complex -- On Female Homosexuality -- The Dread of Woman: Observations on a Specific Difference in the Dread Felt by Men and Women Respectively for the Opposite Sex -- The Denial of the Vagina: a Contribution to the Problem of the Genital Anxieties Specific to Women -- Passivity, Masochism and Femininity -- Early Female Sexuality

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Russell Grigg lectures in philosophy and is the co-ordinator of psychoanalytic studies at Deakin University, Australia. Dr Grigg has a PhD in psychoanalysis and has published extensively on psychoanalysis. He is also known for his translations of the seminars of Jacques Lacan. He is currently a psychoanalyst in private practice. Dominique Hecq is a research fellow in psychoanalytic studies at Deakin University, Australia. Dr Hecq has a PhD in literature and a background in French and German, with qualifications in translating. She has published in the field of literary studies and has had her own stories and poetry published. Craig Smith is a PhD candidate in psychoanalytic studies at Deakin University, Australia. He has degrees in political science from the University of Melbourne and Victoria University of Wellington.