Female sexuality : the early psychoanalytic controversies / edited with introduction and notes by Russell Grigg, Dominique Hecq, and Craig Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grigg, Russell, 1951-

Hecq, Dominique.

Smith, Craig (Craig Edward)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex (Psychology).

Women and psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis--History.

Psychoanalysis.

History.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Physical Description:

304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Other Press, [1999]

Summary:

Assembled here for the first time are the papers that laid the groundwork for contemporary psychoanalytic womens studies and gender theory. Written between 1917 and 1935 by some of the most influential thinkers in this fieldMelanie Klein, Karl Abraham, Joan Riviere, Ernest Jones, and othersthese papers cover a range of topics, including mothering, passivity, hysteria, masochism, object choice, and the complex relationship between gender and biology. Russell Griggs accessible, scholarly introduction elucidates both their historical importance, as well as their continuing relevance to the topic of female sexuality.

Contents:

1 Contributions to the Masculinity Complex in Women / J. H. W. Van Ophuijsen 19

2 The Castration Complex / August Starcke 30

3 Manifestations of the Female Castration Complex / Karl Abraham 51

4 Origins and Growth of Object Love / Karl Abraham 76

5 The Psychology of Women in Relation to the Functions of Reproduction / Helene Deutsch 93

6 The Flight from Womanhood: The Masculinity-Complex in Women, as Viewed by Men and Women / Karen Horney 107

7 A Contribution to the Problem of Libidinal Development of the Genital Phase in Girls / Josine Muller 122

8 The Genesis of the Feminine Super-Ego / Carl Muller-Braunschweig 129

9 The Early Development of Female Sexuality / Ernest Jones 133

10 Early Stages of the Oedipus Conflict / Melanie Klein 146

11 The Evolution of the Oedipus Complex in Women / Jeanne Lampl de Groot 159

12 Womanliness as a Masquerade / Joan Riviere 172

13 The Significance of Masochism in the Mental Life of Women / Helene Deutsch 183

14 The Pregential Antecedents of the Oedipus Complex / Otto Fenichel 195

15 On Female Homosexuality / Helene Deutsch 220

16 The Dread of Woman: Observations on a Specific Difference in the Dread Felt by Men and Women Respectively for the Opposite Sex / Karen Horney 241

17 The Denial of the Vagina: a Contribution to the Problem of the Genital Anxieties Specific to Women / Karen Horney 253

18 Passivity, Masochism and Femininity / Marie Bonaparte 266

19 Early Female Sexuality / Ernest Jones 275.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [286]-292) and index.

ISBN:

1892746395

OCLC:

41662451