The Universal Refusal : A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Feminine Sphere and its Repudiation.
Title:
The Universal Refusal : A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Feminine Sphere and its Repudiation.
Author:
Schaeffer, Jacqueline.
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9781849408929
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1 online resource (285 pages)
Contents:
COVER -- CONTENTS -- PREAMBLE -- PREFACE Beyond the phallic dimension: the female sex organ -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- PART I REPUDIATING THE FEMININE SPHERE (THE SPHINX AND HER FORLORN SOUL) -- EPISTLE TO THE READER Repudiating the feminine sphere-a great riddle? -- CHAPTER ONEFreud and the "repudiationof femininity" -- CHAPTER TWO The "internal foreign body"" -- CHAPTER THREE The difference between the sexes -- CHAPTER FOUR The "lover-for-ecstatic-pleasure" -- CHAPTER FIVE Clinical examples -- CHAPTER SIX The witch-hunt (a tale of hatred of the feminine sphere) -- IN CONCLUSION -- PART II PRELUDES TO THE FEMININE SPHERE -- CHAPTER SEVEN Horror feminae, or non-dangerous de-liaisons -- CHAPTER EIGHT "The Sleeping Beauty"-the advent of the feminine sphere in girls -- CHAPTER NINE The tenant: the vagina on lease from the anus -- CHAPTER TEN Rubies abhor red: hysterical relationships and counter-cathexes -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Hysterical identification and projective identification -- CHAPTER TWELVE From narcissistic to traumatic seduction (when the siren meets the snake) -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN "I love you": words of betrayal or words betrayed? -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN The family album: reality-testing and remembering-re-finding the object -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Gradiva: representations of the feminine sphere -- POSTSCRIPT Refusal of the feminine dimension and the object -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.
Abstract:
Freud spoke of the "repudiation of femininity" as being an "underlying bedrock", part of the "enigma" of sexuality. The enigma is not so much the refusal of the feminine dimension as such; it has more to do with rejecting its erotic and genital aspects, as well as its creation through sexual ecstatic pleasure. Equality between the sexes is a legitimate demand in the political, social and economic spheres, but forming a masculine-feminine relationship as a couple is a creation of the mind, exalting the acknowledgement of the otherness which is part of the difference between the sexes. There is a conflict - and the feminine dimension itself is rooted in it - between sexuality that demands "defeat" and an ego that abhors this. It is the man's masculine dimension - the antagonist of the phallic one - which creates the feminine dimension in women, by tearing away their defences and generating sexual ecstasy. The quality of the sexual, emotional and social relationship that is set up between a man and a woman bears witness to the "work of civilization" [Kulturarbeit].
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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