The Gender Conundrum: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Femininity and Masculinity

ISBN-13: 9780415091640 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 312 str.

Dana Birksted-Breen

Opis

In The Gender Conundrum, Dana Birksted-Breen brings key psychoanalytic papers on the subject of femininity and masculinity from the very different British, French, and American perspectives. The papers are gathered around the central issue of the interplay of body and psyche in psychoanalysis. The editor sees the positive use of this given tension and duality as the key to real understanding of the questions currently surrounding gender identity. As well as addressing the outspoken controversy over the understanding of femininity, she shows that there has been a more silent revolution in the understanding of masculinity. Offering an international perspective, this collection of seminal papers, with introductions of exemplary clarity, fills a considerable gap in the literature, providing a classic text for psychoanalysis and gender studies.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements. General Introduction. Part I: The Oedipus Complex. Introduction. Blos, Son and Father. Laufer, The Female Oedipus Complex and the Relationship to the Body. Britton, The Missing Link: Parental Sexuality in the Oedipus Complex. Part II: The Phallic Question. Introduction. Chasseguet-Smirgel, Freud and Female Sexuality: The Consideration of Some Blind Spots in the Exploration of the 'Dark Continent'. Gillespie, Concepts of Vaginal Orgasm. Braunschweig, Fain, The Phallic Shadow. Montrelay, Enquiry into Femininity. Gibeault, On the Feminine and the Masculine: Afterthoughts in Jaqueline Cosnier's Book, Destins de la Feminite. Part III: The Representation of the Body. Introduction. Bernstein, Female Genital Anxieties, Conflicts and Typical Mastery Modes. Glasser, 'The Weak Spot' - Some Observations on Male Sexuality. Part IV: Bisexuality. Introduction. McDougall, The Dead Father: On Early Psychic Trauma and its Relation to Disturbance in Sexual Identity and in Creative Activity.Greenson,  Dis-identifying from Mother: Its Special Importance for the Boy. Aisenstein, Clinical Notes on the Identification with the Little Girl. Limentani, To the Limits of Male Heterosexuality: The Vagina-man.

O autorze

Dana Breen is a Training Psychoanalyst in private practice and is actively involved in the training organization of the Biritsh Institute of Psycho-Analysis. She is Book Review Editor of the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. She was formerly a research fellow at the University of Sussex.