Women's bodies in psychoanalysis / Rosemary Balsam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balsam, Rosemary Marshall.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and psychoanalysis.

Human body.

Body image in women.

Women--Psychology.

Women.

Women--Physiology.

Psychophysiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hove, East Sussex : New York NY : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why has the female body been marginalised in psychoanalysis, with a focus on female problems and pains only? How can we begin to think about body pleasure, power, competition and aggression as normal in females? In Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis, Rosemary Balsam argues that re-tracing theoretical steps back to the biological body's attributes is fruitful in searching for the clues of our mental development. She shows that the female biological body, across female gender variants and sexual preferences, including the 'vanished pregnant body', has been largely overlooked in

Contents:

Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1 A language of silence?; Chapter 2 Women talking; Chapter 3 The vanished pregnant body; Chapter 4 The pregnant mother and her daughter's body image; Chapter 5 Childbirth; Chapter 6 Childbirth in vivo; Chapter 7 Anatomy, desire, muscles, and bellies; Chapter 8 Sisters and brothers; Chapter 9 Daughters and sons; Chapter 10 Infant daughters and fathers as primary caretakers; Chapter 11 Some implications for theory; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-135-13701-3

1-283-52122-9

9786613833679

0-203-07832-2

1-135-13702-1

9780203078327

OCLC:

804661225