Dana Birksted-Breen (ed.)

The Gender Conundrum

Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Femininity and Masculinity
Herausgeber: Birksted-Breen, Dana

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In The Gender Conundrum Dana Birksted-Breen brings together for the first time 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780415091640
• ISBN-10: 0415091640
• Artikelnr.: 21636861

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.