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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813161903321

Autore

Austin Sue

Titolo

Women's aggressive fantasies : a post-Jungian exploration of self-hatred, love and agency / / Sue Austin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005

ISBN

1-135-44500-1

1-135-44501-X

1-280-28147-2

9786610281473

0-203-08700-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Disciplina

155.3/33

Soggetti

Women - Psychology

Aggressiveness

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. [251]-258) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 A different way of looking at aggression; Chapter 2 The telos of aggression: a post-Jungian perspective; Chapter 3 Identity nightmares and a methodology in the madness; Chapter 4 Transgressing rational identity; Chapter 5 Explosive visibility; Chapter 6 Eating disorders and the telos of aggression; Chapter 7 Aggressive energies and relationships; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

How can a woman's self-hatred contain the seeds of her psychological growth?Can aggressive energies form the basis of recovery from eating disorders?Women's Aggressive Fantasies examines the roles of aggressive fantasies and impulses in contemporary women's lives. Such impulses have previously been overlooked by psychoanalysis, feminism and depth psychology when, Sue Austin argues, they should occupy a central position.Drawing together apparently disparate strands of theory from feminism, critical psychology, contemporary psychoanalysis and post-Jungian thought, th