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

Publication Info. London, England : Karnac, 1999.
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (315 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary The papers collected together in this volume laid the groundwork for contemporary psychoanalytic women's studies and gender theory. They cover a period from June 1917, when Johan van Ophuijsen presented his paper on the masculinity complex in women to the Dutch Psycho-Analytical Society, to April 1935, when Ernest Jones read a paper on early female sexuality to the Vienna Psycho-Analytical Society. Although these papers are often referred to in discussions of female sexuality, and although some individual papers have been reproduced elsewhere, they have never before appeared together as a colle.
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Subject Sex (Psychology)
Sex (Psychology)
Women -- Sexual behavior.
Women -- Sexual behavior.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Added Author Grigg, Russell, 1951- editor.
Hecq, Dominique, editor.
Smith, Craig, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Female sexuality : the early psychoanalytic controversies. London, England : Karnac, ©1999 304 pages 9781782200222
ISBN 9781782414322 (electronic book)
1782414320 (electronic book)
9781782200222
1782200223