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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461233003321

Autore

Chasseguet-Smirgel Janine

Titolo

Female Sexuality : New Psychoanalytic Views / / by Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2018]

©1991

ISBN

9780429896928

0-429-89943-2

0-429-47466-0

1-283-11818-1

9786613118189

1-84940-106-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

Maresfield library

Disciplina

155.3/33

155.333

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Women - Sexual behavior

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; Contents; Introduction; A Masculine Mythology of Femininity; Outline for a Study of Narcissism in Female Sexuality; The Change of Object; Feminine Guilt and the Oedipus Complex; The Significance of Penis Envy in Women; Homosexuality in Women; Notes

Sommario/riassunto

Female Sexuality represents a distinct contribution to the psychoanalytic study of feminine psychology and sexual identity. First published in France as Recherches psychanalytiques nouvelles sur la sexualite feminine, the book consists of six major essays and a comprehensive introduction which reviews the various approaches to the subject. Freudian and non-Freudian views on female sexuality are carefully examined, thus providing a valuable perspective from which to view the authors' subsequent discussions. "The present authors," writes Dr J. Chasseguet-Smirgel in her introduction, "have attempted as



far as possible to free their theoretical ideas and their clinical interpretations from the unconscious fantasies which distort scientific objectivity. "Christian David thus uses a clinical history to study masculine myths about femininity; Catherine Luquet-Parat attributes an important role to female masochism in the young girl's "change of object"; Bela Grunberger examines the origins of female narcissism.