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List of contents
Contemporary Freud , Introduction , Lecture XXXIII: “Femininity” (1933) , Discussion of "Femininity" , Femininity and the Oedipus complex , Contemporary views on femininity, gender, and generative identity , The analyst's meta-theories concerning sexual difference and the feminine , Vicissitudes of the feminine dimension in men and bisexuality in the analytic situation , The limitations of Freud's 1933 bisexual hypothesis to explain impediments to creativity in a woman , The riddle of the repudiation of femininity: the scandal of the feminine dimension , Are women still in danger of being misunderstood? , Autonomy and womanhood , The psychoanalyst's implicit theories of gender , Femininity and the human dimension , The persistence of tradition in the unconscious of modern Korean women
About the author
Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose is a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine. For the last twenty-six years, she has been a member of CAPS (Center for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis). She was the founder and Chairperson of this Institute's Colloquium with Visiting Authors, where analysts from all over the world, with different perspectives in psychoanalysis, would join us to discuss their points of view.Leticia Glocer Fiorini is a training psychoanalyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. She is the author of 'The Feminine and the Complex Thought', 'Deconstructing the Feminine: Psychoanalysis, Gender and Theories of Complexity', and editor of 'The Other in the Intersubjective Field' and 'Time, History and Structure. A Psychoanalytical Approach'. Among other contributions in psychoanalytic journals she has published 'The enigma of the sexual difference', in 'Feminine Scenarios"'; 'Assisted fertilization, new problems' in 'Prevention in Mental Health'; 'The sexed body and the real, its meaning in transsexualism' in 'Masculine Scenarios'; 'Psychoanalysis and Gender, Convergences and Divergences' in 'Psychoanalysis and Gender Relations'; and 'The bodies of present-day maternity' in 'Motherhood in the Twenty-first Century'.
Summary
Discourse on women has changed greatly since Freud's time. It coincides with deep changes experienced by women and the feminine position, at least in most of the Western world. The authors are interested in illuminating ways in which these changes have or have not influenced psychoanalytic debate in relation to the feminine.
