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The universal refusal : a psychoanalytic exploration of the feminine sphere and its repudiation / Jacqueline Schaeffer ; translated by David Alcorn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schaeffer, Jacqueline, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Refus du Feminine. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
- Freud, Sigmund.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Women--Sexual behavior.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (285 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 2018.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <![CDATA[Freud spoke of the ""repudiation of femininity"" as being an ""underlying bedrock"", part of the ""enigma"" of sexuality. The enigma is not so much the refusal of the feminine dimension as such; it has more to do with rejecting its erotic and genital aspects, as well as its creation through sexual ecstatic pleasure. Equality between the sexes is a legitimate demand in the political, social and economic spheres, but forming a masculine-feminine relationship as a couple is a creation of the mind, exalting the acknowledgement of the otherness which is part of the difference between the s
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Repudiating the feminine sphere (the sphinx and her forlorn soul)
- pt. 2. Preludes to the feminine sphere.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-429-92264-7
- 0-429-90841-5
- 0-429-48364-3
- 1-283-11858-0
- 9786613118585
- 1-84940-892-0
- 9780429483646
- OCLC:
- 727649314
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