The interpretation of the flesh : Freud and femininity / Teresa Brennan.
The 'riddle of femininity', like Freud's reference to women's sexuality as a 'dark continent', has been treated as a romantic aside or a sexist evasion rather than as a problem to be solved. In this first comprehensive study, Teresa Brennan suggests that by placing thes...
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1992.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The riddle of femininity. Freud's two theories of femininity. Metapsychology and the two 'spatial' topographies. Psychical reality: time lost. Memory guide
- 2. The riddle's repression. Freud's three papers on femininity, female sexuality, and the 'Great Debate'. Subsequent developments. The second debate. Freud's last words
- 3. The division of attention. The Studies on hysteria. The divergence from Breuer. Constructed inertia. The defence of repression
- 4. The involution of the drives. The analogy theory and the libido. The quantitative factor. The unclear origins of the drives. Involution: femininity and the 1911 theory of the ego. Hypothesizing
- 5. The original superego. Freud and the Superego. Freud and Klein. Love and Hate. Masochism
- 6. Conclusion: the riddle again.