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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786287003321

Titolo

Psychoanalytic reflections on a gender-free case : into the void / / edited by Ellen L.K. Toronto. [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-94773-9

0-203-75988-5

1-283-96899-1

1-134-94766-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Classificazione

77.14

Altri autori (Persone)

TorontoEllen L. K

Disciplina

616.89/17/0082

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Women psychoanalysts

Women and psychoanalysis

Psychotherapist and patient

Feminist therapy

Gender identity - Psychological aspects

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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