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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783849103321

Autore

Frosh Stephen

Titolo

Sexual difference : masculinity and psychoanalysis / / Stephen Frosh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994

ISBN

1-134-91591-8

1-134-91592-6

0-203-13083-9

1-280-32952-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 p.)

Disciplina

155.3/3

Soggetti

Masculinity

Sex differences (Psychology)

Psychoanalysis

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 (p. [145]-148) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Finding sexual difference; Towards psychoanalysis; Psychoanalysing sexual difference; 2 Psychoanalysis and sexual difference; A gift of language; The discourse of the other; Getting back to the subject; The Lacanian principle; 3 Inside the dream; The origins of psychoanalysis; Masculine identifications: from Joseph to Moses; The body of the dream; The dream of Irma's Injection; Disruption and the dream; 4 Masculine mastery and fantasy, or the meaning of the phallus; Phallocentric theory; Phallic functions

or, how men and women find out who they are The woman for the man; 5 The seeds of masculine sexuality; Deconstructing masculinity; Sexuality and subjectivity; On dominant abuse; Masculinity dissolved; His-story; Desire and the mother; Abuse again; Sex and sexuality; 6 Transgressing sexual difference; Speaking without words; Subject and object; Time and space; Speaking with the mother; 'Their ""Symbolic"" exists'; Transgressing sexual difference; References; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Sexual Difference is a critical exploration of psychoanalytic theories of sexual difference.  In particular it explores the way in which masculinity



is expressed in theory and practice.  Developing from the unsettling impact of these issues on the author's own professional practice, Stephen Frosh examines how the very language and structure of psychoanalysis are loaded with assumptions about gender. Employing both Kleinian and Lacanian theoretical perspectives this book critically examines these approaches to sexual difference.  In addition, it discusses the application of these