Femininity, Desire and Sublimation in Psychoanalysis - From the Melancholic to the Erotic

Femininity, Desire and Sublimation in Psychoanalysis explores female subjectivity and examines the complexities inherent in psychoanalytic work realized by women analysts with women. The book includes a critical study of psychoanalytic theories on femininity as well as a reflection on social aspects of gender.

List of contents

Preface
Series Editor Foreword
Chapter I: The Mother Complex
Chapter II: Loss Of The Object In The Young Homosexual
Chapter III: Women Analyzing Women
Chapter IV: The Daughter’s Crucial Challenge: Separation
Chapter V: Gender, The Sexual And The Feminine
Chapter VI: The Feminine And New Conceptions Of Motherhood
Chapter VII: Femininity, Desire And Sublimation
Chapter VIII: The Mother, Trauma And Writing
Chapter IX: The Sexual And Sublimation
Chapter X: The Object In Lacan And In Winnicott
Chapter XI: Psychoanalytic Writing And The Unknown

About the author

Elda Abrevaya is a founding member and a training analyst of the Istanbul Psychoanalytical Association and member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society. She has been Professor at the University of Puerto Rico and is co-editor of the book Homosexualities: Psychogenesis, Polymorphism, and Countertransference (Routledge, 2015).

Summary

Femininity, Desire and Sublimation in Psychoanalysis explores female subjectivity and examines the complexities inherent in psychoanalytic work realized by women analysts with women. The book includes a critical study of psychoanalytic theories on femininity as well as a reflection on social aspects of gender.

Product details

• Authors: Elda Abrevaya, Abrevaya Elda
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781032140803
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3214080-3
• No. of pages: 126
• Series: The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Cultural Studies, Philosophy, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Gender studies, gender groups, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis