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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817186403321

Titolo

Female sexuality : the early psychoanalytic controversies / / edited by Russell Grigg, Dominique Hecq, and Craig Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Karnac, , 1999

©1999

ISBN

9780429896929

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Disciplina

155.3

Soggetti

Sex (Psychology)

Women - Sexual behavior

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

COVER; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Editors; Biographical Notes; Introduction; 1 Contributions to the Masculinity Complex in Women; 2 The Castration Complex; 3. Manifestations of the Female Castration Complex; 4 Origins and Growth of Object Love; 5 The Psychology of Women in Relation to the Functionsof Reproduction; 6 The Flight from Womanhood: The MasculinityComplexin Women, as Viewed by Men and Women; 7 A Contribution to the Problem of LibidinalDevelopment of the Genital Phase in Girls; 8 The Genesis of the Feminine Super-Ego; 9 The Early Development of Female Sexuality

10 Early Stages of the Oedipus Conflict11 The Evolution of the Oedipus Complex in Women; 12 Womanliness as a Masquerade; 13 The Significance of Masochism in the Mental Life of Women ; 14 The Pregenital Antecedents of the Oedipus Complex; 15 On Female Homosexuality; 16 The Dread of Woman: Observations on a SpecificDifference in the Dread Felt by Men and WomenRespectively for the Opposite Sex; 17 The Denial of the Vagina: a Contribution to theProblem of the Genital Anxieties Specific to Women; 18 Passivity, Masochism and Femininity; 19 Early Female Sexuality; 20 Bibliography; Index