The Embodied Female

ISBN-13: 9781855759527 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 160 str.

Alcira M. Alizade

Opis

This is the first volume in a unique series arising out of the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis. This volume presents a collection of highly original and insightful essays broadly concerned with the study of the psychic corollaries of women's physical experience.

Spis treści

Foreword -- Psychoanalysis of a female homosexual -- The everlasting orgasm -- The fluidity of the female universe and its psychic consequences -- Negotiating the antagonism between feminine and maternal spheres -- Eggs between women—emotional aspects of gamete donation in reproductive technology -- Strangebody -- The analyst as reluctant spectator: working with women obsessed with body narcissism -- The female body has its reasons—but its reasons have a female body -- The challenges and options of menopause -- Baubo: rediscovering woman’s pleasures -- The hidden chamber—a case of fused minor labia

O autorze

Alizade, Mariam