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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grigg, Russell, editor.

Hecq, Dominique, editor.

Smith, Craig, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex (Psychology).

Women--Sexual behavior.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Karnac, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The papers collected together in this volume laid the groundwork for contemporary psychoanalytic women's studies and gender theory. They cover a period from June 1917, when Johan van Ophuijsen presented his paper on the masculinity complex in women to the Dutch Psycho-Analytical Society, to April 1935, when Ernest Jones read a paper on early female sexuality to the Vienna Psycho-Analytical Society.Although these papers are often referred to in discussions of female sexuality, and although some individual papers have been reproduced elsewhere, they have never before appeared together as a collection. Anyone who has read these papers will be aware of their importance to the topic of female sexuality. But it is not the theme alone that unifies the collection. There are two further considerations of equal importance: the dialogue and debate that take place between the papers, from first to last; and the considerable impact they had on the development of certain of Freud's key themes. The papers have a clear historical interest but rereading them today will also show their continuing relevance to debates within and outside psychoanalysis on female sexuality.This collection contains papers by Karl Abraham, Marie Bonaparte, Ruth Mack Brunswick, Helene Deutsch, Otto Fenichel, Karen Horney, Ernest Jones, Melanie Klein, Jeanne Lampl de Groot, Josine Muller, Carl Muller-Braunschweig, Johan H. W. van Ophuijsen, Joan Riviere, and August Starcke.

Contents:

COVER; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Editors; Biographical Notes; Introduction; 1 Contributions to the Masculinity Complex in Women; 2 The Castration Complex; 3. Manifestations of the Female Castration Complex; 4 Origins and Growth of Object Love; 5 The Psychology of Women in Relation to the Functionsof Reproduction; 6 The Flight from Womanhood: The MasculinityComplexin Women, as Viewed by Men and Women; 7 A Contribution to the Problem of LibidinalDevelopment of the Genital Phase in Girls; 8 The Genesis of the Feminine Super-Ego; 9 The Early Development of Female Sexuality

10 Early Stages of the Oedipus Conflict11 The Evolution of the Oedipus Complex in Women; 12 Womanliness as a Masquerade; 13 The Significance of Masochism in the Mental Life of Women ; 14 The Pregenital Antecedents of the Oedipus Complex; 15 On Female Homosexuality; 16 The Dread of Woman: Observations on a SpecificDifference in the Dread Felt by Men and WomenRespectively for the Opposite Sex; 17 The Denial of the Vagina: a Contribution to theProblem of the Genital Anxieties Specific to Women; 18 Passivity, Masochism and Femininity; 19 Early Female Sexuality; 20 Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 25, 2015).

ISBN:

9780429896929

OCLC:

908098633