The Undead Mother: Psychoanalytic Explorations of Masculinity, Femininity, and Matricide

ISBN-13: 9780367329037 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 252 str.

Christina Wieland

Opis

'A state of mourning is something that the late Twentieth Century has been uniquely unable to achieve. A culture based on the interchangeability of products and people, and a throw-away culture, is not conducive to mourning...Inanimate objects have replaced human ideals. A culture of 'virtual reality' which finds it difficult to distinguish between

Spis treści

A Note on Texts -- Introduction -- Clytemnestra and Count Dracula -- Matricide and the Oedipus Complex -- Masculinity and Matricide -- Masculinity, Femininity, and the Death Instinct -- Freud and Femininity -- Mothers and Daughters -- Matricide and the Mother-Daughter Relationship -- The Father-Daughter Romance -- Beauty and the Beast: the Father-Daughter Relationship -- Aggression and Femininity -- Two Women in the Consulting-Room -- The Search for an Alternative Space

O autorze

Christina Wieland is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice and a fellow of the University of Essex, teaching at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies. She has a special interest in psychoanalysis, gender and culture, and has published numerous papers in this area.