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This book examines the theories of female sexuality, using the
Freudian and non-Freudian approach to the unconscious. It emphasise
on what in the psychoanalytic image of man matters most. The book
helps fill a long-apparent need for authoritative analyses in
feminine psychology and sexual identity.
This book examines the role of the Oedipus complex in the psyche
and relates it to urgent issues of social life, historical and
current. It discusses the theory of sexual phallic monism and its
most important consequences, and some essential points of Freud's
work on female sexuality.
This book examines the theories of female sexuality, using the
Freudian and non-Freudian approach to the unconscious. It emphasise
on what in the psychoanalytic image of man matters most. The book
helps fill a long-apparent need for authoritative analyses in
feminine psychology and sexual identity.
This book examines the role of the Oedipus complex in the psyche
and relates it to urgent issues of social life, historical and
current. It discusses the theory of sexual phallic monism and its
most important consequences, and some essential points of Freud's
work on female sexuality.
What is the relationship between creativity and perversion? The
boundary between the world of art and 'the artful universe of the
pervert' is carefully explored in this study. Beyond the banal or
picturesque variations in sexual behaviour, there lies an essential
dimension of the human condition, a permanent temptation of the
mind. It is the wish to escape our limitations, to replace our
world with one where all things are possible. Led on by hubris,
'the artful universe' of perversion dethrones God-The-Father and
rewrites the Bible. It aims to transmute reality, to revert to
confusion and chaos. Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel draws on a wide
range of films, plays and writers - including de Sade, Oscar Wilde,
and H.G. Wells. Examples from these sources are closely interwoven
with clinical case material. Although the author does not conform
to the classical analytic scheme, she reviews the psychoanalytic
literature and remains faithful to Freud's thought. Emphasizing the
relations between perversion, narcissism and idealization, she
places the problem of perversion within the endless struggle of
humanity against reality.
In this careful exposition of the concept of the ego ideal, the
author explores the short cuts that are available to the psyche and
traces the longer, more painful path to maturity. She develops in
her own way Freud's view that people are forever seeking to regain
a lost state of perfection, the state in which they were their own
ideal - "primary narcissism." The book includes chapters on the
following aspects of the ego ideal: perversion, genitality,
being-in-love, groups, sublimation in the creative process, reality
testing, and the superego.
Is today's thinking conditioned by body-mind dualism? A rebellion
against the biological order seems to have silently infiltrated our
world view. Suicide bombers appear to share the fascination with
destruction, of writers such as Mishima, Pasolini and Foucault. A
liberation from the body to reestablish a - possibly mystical -
union of soul and cosmos and an assertion of the mind's omnipotence
appear to be common features of forms of behaviour that seem to be
taken for granted in contemporary thought. Is the new misogyny,
which rejects motherhood in the name of feminism, contributing in
any way to these trends? This review of our society by a woman
psychoanalyst - a non-medic and graduate of the Institut d'Etudes
Politiques in Paris - presents a sharp and rigorous analysis of the
strange and violent mechanisms that are erupting in the world
today.
Once the ego-ideal is clearly distinguished from the super-ego, it
becomes possible to make sense of much that formerly remained
obscure in psychoanalytic theory. Chasseguet-Smirgel illuminates
not only the psychology of narcissism in individuals but many of
the connections between psychic life and society.
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