Gender and Envy

The first volume of its kind, this edited collection brings together classic texts in the history of psychoanalysis and developing theory to examine gender and envy. Bringing to light the ways in which our preoccupation with the Freudian concept of penis envy has both revealed and obscured fundamental psychological insights, the essays also form bridges across many disciplines and schools of psychological thought. From foundational works by Freud, Klein, and Horney to the current scholarship of Fast, Torok and Friedman, Gender and Envy brings together a library of critical thinking on the ongoing discussion of envy, gender and psychoanalysis.

List of contents

General Introduction

PART I--The Emergence of aPoint of Tension

Introduction
1. SigmundFreud--Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction Between the Sexes
2. Karen Horney--The Flight from Womanhood
3. Melanie Klein--Early Stages of the Oedipus Complex

PART II--Penis Envy:Foundation or Delusion?

Introduction
4. John A.Friedman--Gender and Envy in Freud's Discourse
5. LuceIrigaray--The Blind Spot of an Old Dream of Symmetry (excerpt from Speculum of the Other Woman)
6. MariaTorok--The Significance of Penis Envy in Women
7.Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel--The Female Castration Complex and Penis Envy (excerpt)
8. Jessica Benjamin--Father and Daughter: Identification with Difference--A Contribution to Gender Heterodoxy

PART III--TheDebate Broadens

Introduction
9. IreneFast--Developments in Gender Identity: The Original Matrix (Introduction to Gender Identity)
10. Eva FederKittay--Mastering Envy: From Freud's Narcissistic Wounds to Bettelheim's Symbolic Wounds to a Vision of Healing
11. Christiane Olivier--In the Beginning Was Freud (and other excerpts from Jocasta's Children)
12.Sigmund Freud--Some Neurotic Mechanisms in Jealousy, Paranoia, and Homosexuality
13. SusanKavaler-Adler--Vaginal Core or Vampire Mouth: The Visceral Level of Envy in Women: An Exploration of the Protosymbolic Politics of Object Relations

PARTIV--Gender and Envy through theLife-Span

Introduction
14. RobertMay--Reflections on Envy, with Special Attention to the College Years
15. Peter Shabad--The Evil Eye of Envy: Parental Possessiveness and the Rivalry for a New Beginning
16. David Gutmann--Male Envy Across the Life-Span

PART V--Gender and Envy in Social andCultural Life

Introduction
17. TeresaBrennan--The Foundational Fantasy (excerpt from HistoryAfter Lacan)
18. Marjorie Garber--Fetish Envy
19.Clayton Koelb--Castration Envy: Nietzche and the Figure of Woman

About the author

Nancy Burke is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School, a Staff Psychologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and a private practitioner in Chicago.

Product details

• Assisted by: Nancy Burke (Editor), Burke Nancy (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.08.1998
• EAN: 9780415916288
• ISBN: 978-0-415-91628-8
• No. of pages: 328
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Gender studies, gender groups, Psychology: sexual behaviour, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis