Masculinity and femininity today / edited by Ester Palerm Mari and Frances Thomson-Salo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mari, Esther, 1930-2010.

Thomson Salo, Frances.

Series:

Psychoanalysis and Women Series

Psychoanalysis & women series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity.

Sex differences (Psychology).

Femininity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents a wide range of psychoanalytic writing on masculinity and femininity from British, European, and North and South American perspectives, exploring how masculine and feminine aspects are structured and evolve in the child, adolescent and adult. The authors address from a background of considerable clinical experience how masculinity and femininity manifest in the body, gender, sex, sexuality and the life-cycle, and cover aspects both productive and generative, constricted and defended. The importance of the parenting couple and their bond with the child in the forming of masculine and feminine idenitities is emphasized. Beginning with an overview of the development of masculinity, the developmental perspective is explored in how adolescents discover their sexuality and come to 'own' their sexual bodies. Different types of disturbance are explored including the early defence mechanism of disavowal of difference.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""CONTENTS""; ""ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CHAPTER ONE Evolving perspectives on masculinity and its discontents: reworking the internal phallic and genital positions""; ""CHAPTER TWO Discussion of “Evolving perspectives on masculinity and its discontents: reworking the internal phallic and genital positions�""; ""CHAPTER THREE The hour of the stranger""; ""CHAPTER FOUR Discussion of “The hour of the stranger�""; ""CHAPTER FIVE The abyss of intimacy""; ""CHAPTER SIX Lack of discrimination as a defence mechanism""

""CHAPTER SEVEN Listening to psychical bisexuality in analysis""""CHAPTER EIGHT Masculinity and the analytic relationship�transforming masculinity in the course of the analysis""; ""CHAPTER NINE Intersubjective context of gender and sexuality""; ""CHAPTER TEN Identity: a constellation of emotional experience and metaphors in childhood""; ""CHAPTER ELEVEN Furious with love�some reflections on the sexuality of a little girl""; ""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:

0-429-91610-8

0-429-90187-9

0-429-47710-4

1-78241-148-8

9780429477102

OCLC:

851972534