The Castration Complex: What Is So Natural about Sexuality?

ISBN-13: 9781782205807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 182 str.

Sultana, Mou

Opis

This book illustrates that the castration complex and the question of the distinction between the sexes are enmeshed in psychoanalytic theories. The subjective negotiation of this distinction impacts the future sexual positions taken up by the subject, indicating that human sexuality is by no means a given or a natural occurrence in psychoanalysis.

Recenzje

"It is apt that In this era of gender fluidity, Mou Sultana has written such an accessible and theoretically illuminating psychoanalytic work on the nature of psychosexual development. Her argument that the acquisition of sexuality is a phenomenon of the subject taking up a position (or not), as opposed to the idea of the subject being given his or her sexuality by nature, biology, anatomy, or society, is persuasive and so relevant at this time. Some readers may be put off by the title Castration Complex, as if it is an outdated concept. Don’t be. This is a book for our times. I highly recommend it."-Prof Anthony McCarthy, former president and founder member, The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland.

O autorze

Mou Sultana is a practising psychoanalyst in private practice in Ireland. She also works as a psychotherapist with Health Services Executives, Probation Services and the Irish Department of Justice.