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1 online resource (329 pages) |
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Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Gender-freeCase; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction; Part IGender unbound; Chapter 1Case presentation; Chapter 2The feminine unconscious in psychoanalytic theory; Part IISuspending certainty in the consulting room; Chapter 3Commentary on Part II; Chapter 4Childhoods driven wrong; Chapter 5An analyst's pregnancy loss and its effects on treatment disruption and growth; Chapter 6Working in the space between psychoanalytic and trauma-oriented approaches to stories of abuse; Part IIIFamily relationships: Shifting perspectives |
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Chapter 7Commentary on Part IIIChapter 8Selfobjects, Oedipal objects and mutual recognition: a self-psychological reappraisal of the female Oedipal victor -- Chapter 9Demeter and Persephone revisited: ambivalence and separation in the mother-daughter relationship; Chapter 10Boys' envy of mother and the consequences of this narcissistic mortification; Chapter 11Mothering and fathering processes in the psychoanalytic art; Part IVBeneath the bedrock: the gender of desire; Chapter 12Commentary on Part IV; Chapter 13The female person and how we talk about her |
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Chapter 14Woman and desire: why women may not want to wantPart VMultiplicity: postmodern revisions of gender; Chapter 15Commentary on Part V; Chapter 16Beyond narcissism: toward a negotiation model of gender identity; Chapter 17Ironic gender, authentic sex; Chapter 18Gender stereotypes and the change towards greater personal maturity in psychotherapy; Chapter 19The music of ""masculinity"": clinical attention to tone and rhythm in gender construction; Chapter 20Race in psychoanalytic space; Afterword; Index |
| 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 |
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Psychoanalysis
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Women psychoanalysts
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Women and psychoanalysis
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Psychotherapist and patient
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Feminist therapy
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Gender identity -- Psychological aspects
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Feminist therapy.
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Gender identity.
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Psychoanalysis.
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Psychotherapist and patient.
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Women and psychoanalysis.
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Women psychoanalysts.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Ainslie, Gemma
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Donovan, Molly
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Kelly, Maurine
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Kieffer, Christine C
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McWilliams, Nancy
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| ISBN |
9781134947669 |
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1134947666 |
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