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Psychoanalytic reflections on a gender-free case : into the void / edited by Ellen L.K. Toronto. [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychoanalysis.
- Women psychoanalysts.
- Women and psychoanalysis.
- Psychotherapist and patient.
- Feminist therapy.
- Gender identity--Psychological aspects.
- Gender identity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The past two decades of psychoanalytic discourse have witnessed a marked transformation in the way we think about women and gender. The assignment of gender carries with it a host of assumptions, yet without it we can feel lost in a void, unmoored from the world of rationality, stability and meaning. The feminist analytic thinkers whose work is collected here confront the meaning established by the assignment of gender and the uncertainty created by its absence. The contributions brought together in Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Gender-free Case address a cross-section of
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Gender unbound
- pt. 2. Suspending certainty in the consulting room
- pt. 3. Family relationships : shifting perspectives
- pt. 4. Beneath the bedrock : the gender of desire
- pt. 5. Multiplicity : postmodern revisions of gender.
- 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:
- 1-134-94773-9
- 0-203-75988-5
- 1-283-96899-1
- 1-134-94766-6
- 9780203759882
- OCLC:
- 829461825
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