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Leticia Glocer Fiorini explores the impasses of binary thought and
of the essentialist conceptions of women and the feminine. In this
trajectory, the author s ongoing dialogue with Freud is connected
with one aspect of his way of thinking: multicentered and complex.
The text addresses questions relating to love, sexual desire,
maternity, beauty and the passing of time and highlights current
debates concerning women, the feminine, and sexual difference as
well as some controversial topics that have been discussed
throughout the history of the psychoanalytic movement. One of the
most relevant subjects is the notion of feminine enigma and the
conceptions of the feminine as the negative of the masculine, which
means going into the nature-nurture debate, as well as into
considerations of the feminine seen as the other of the masculine.
The author points out that the notion of feminine enigma is a
displacement of the enigmas inherent to the origins, to the finite
time of life (the inevitability of death) and to sexual difference.
The basic misunderstanding stemming from this enigmatic condition
is an equation of the feminine to otherness.This text is the result
of a line of work that the author has been developing for several
years, based on her psychoanalytic training and practice as well as
on her reading and interests relating to women and the feminine in
other fields: philosophy, epistemology, anthropology and history.
It is part of her interest in the modes of thought underlying
conceptualizations on women in psychoanalysis. Advances in the
relation between psychoanalysis and the feminine involve
considering the complex relations around the question of sexual
difference and the always problematic construction of sexual
identity."
The guiding thread of this theoretical review is the illumination
of the impasses of binary thought and of the essentialist
conceptions of women and the feminine. In this trajectory, the
author's ongoing dialogue with Freud is connected with one aspect
of his way of thinking: multicentred and complex. The text
addresses questions relating to love, sexual desire, maternity,
beauty and the passing of time and highlights current debates
concerning women, the feminine, and sexual difference as well as
some controversial topics that have been discussed throughout the
history of the psychoanalytic movement. One of the most relevant
subjects is the notion of 'feminine enigma' and the conceptions of
the feminine as the negative of the masculine, which means going
into the nature-nurture debate, as well as into considerations of
the feminine seen as the other of the masculine. The author points
out that the notion of 'feminine enigma' is a displacement of the
enigmas inherent to the origins, to the finite time of life (the
inevitability of death) and to sexual difference.
The greater part of this book focuses on a critical analysis of the
logics and ways of thinking supporting both explicit and implicit
theories of sexual difference and the masculine/feminine pair.
These theories may be private or collective; conscious,
preconscious, or unconscious. They impact heavily on
interpretations and constructions made in analytic practice, while
they also affect transference-countertransference patterns. This
conceptual analysis reviews the Freudian oeuvre as well as the work
of other significant authors, post-Freudian and contemporary, that
have contributed specifically to this topic. The concept of sexual
difference contains a persistent problem: binary, dichotomous
thinking and its blind spots and aporias. For this reason, the
author has turned to other epistemologies that offer novel forms to
think about the same problems, such as the paradigm of
hyper-complexity, as well as thinking at intersections and limits
between different categories.
"Willy and Madeleine Baranger, analysts of French origin, who
trained in Argentina, and who had a decisive role in the
development of Uruguayan psychoanalysis, are two of the most
creative and stimulating authors in Latin American psychoanalysis.
Among their many contributions, I would like to mention two main
concepts that can shed light on the therapeutic action of
psychoanalysis. Their concepts of the dynamic field and unconscious
fantasy represent the convergence of various contemporary schools
of thought, such as the ideas of Kurt Lewin, Gestalt psychology and
elaborations of ideas first put forward by Klein, Isaacs, and
Bion." -- Claudio Laks Eiznik, President of the IPA, from the
Foreword"With Baranger s collected papers, the IPA] has the aim of
publishing and expanding the Baranger s oeuvre to English language
and, consequently, to a broader spectrum of readers. These
contributions represent a pioneering and anticipatory work of great
interest to the psychoanalytical world. Their proposals concerning
the concept of psychoanalytic field, basic unconscious fantasy,
bastion and insight, addresses the whole question of the analytic
situation and anticipate current debates." -- Leticia Glocer
Fiorini from the Series Foreword"
In this book a group of contemporary psychoanalytic authors
dedicated to studies on women and the feminine have been assembled
with the objective of displaying points of concordance and
discordance in relation to Freudian proposals. Discourse on women
has changed greatly since Freud's time. It coincides with deep
changes experienced by women and the feminine position, at least in
most of the Western world. It is common knowledge that
contraceptives, assisted fertilization, advances in women's rights,
growingly evident sublimational capacities and demonstrations of
professional success have definitely changed ideas regarding an
eternal and immutable feminine nature. The authors are interested
in illuminating ways in which these changes have or have not
influenced psychoanalytic debate in relation to the feminine. This
implies renewing the question of what is authentically feminine and
whether there is any essential truth concerning the feminine. They
select as a starting point: Femininity, the thirty-third lecture of
the New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1933 1932]), a
paper in which Freud reflects, and at the same time expands ideas
developed in previous texts which state his concepts on
femininity."
In this book a group of contemporary psychoanalytic authors
dedicated to studies on women and the feminine have been assembled
with the objective of displaying points of concordance and
discordance in relation to Freudian proposals. Discourse on women
has changed greatly since Freud's time. It coincides with deep
changes experienced by women and the feminine position, at least in
most of the Western world. It is common knowledge that
contraceptives, assisted fertilization, advances in women's rights,
growingly evident sublimational capacities and demonstrations of
professional success have definitely changed ideas regarding an
eternal and immutable feminine nature. The authors are interested
in illuminating ways in which these changes have or have not
influenced psychoanalytic debate in relation to the feminine. This
implies renewing the question of what is authentically feminine and
whether there is any essential truth concerning the feminine.
This book expands the authors' oeuvre to the English language and,
consequently, to a broader spectrum of readers. These contributions
represent a pioneering work of great interest to the field of
psychoanalysis. Their proposals concerning the concept of
psychoanalytic field, "basic unconscious fantasy", bastion and
insight, address the whole question of the analytic situation and
anticipate current debates.
In contemporary psychoanalysis, the concepts of time and history
have become increasingly complex. It is evident that this trend
offers us an opportunity to think about the intercrossing of the
different temporal dimensions imbuing the subject, an inevitable
aspect of the analytic process. History is time past but what is
recovered is now the working through of the subject history, which
carries the mark of both passing time and re-signifying time. It is
precisely the notion of history that gains different dimensions
when a purely deterministic analysis is disassembled. Continuities
and breaks are found between subjective time and chronological
time; between the inevitable decrepitude of the biological body
with the passing of time and the timelessness of the unconscious;
between linear, circular times and retroactive re-signification;
between facts, screen memories, memory and the work of constructing
history; between the times of repetition and the times of
difference; between reversible and irreversible time; between the
timelessness of the unconscious and the temporalities of the ego.
The greater part of this book focuses on a critical analysis of the
logics and ways of thinking supporting both explicit and implicit
theories of sexual difference and the masculine/feminine pair.
These theories may be private or collective; conscious,
preconscious, or unconscious. They impact heavily on
interpretations and constructions made in analytic practice, while
they also affect transference-countertransference patterns. This
conceptual analysis reviews the Freudian oeuvre as well as the work
of other significant authors, post-Freudian and contemporary, that
have contributed specifically to this topic. The concept of sexual
difference contains a persistent problem: binary, dichotomous
thinking and its blind spots and aporias. For this reason, the
author has turned to other epistemologies that offer novel forms to
think about the same problems, such as the paradigm of
hyper-complexity, as well as thinking at intersections and limits
between different categories.
In contemporary psychoanalysis, the concepts of time and history
have become increasingly complex. It is evident that this trend
offers us an opportunity to think about the intercrossing of the
different temporal dimensions imbuing the subject, an inevitable
aspect of the analytic process. History is time past but what is
recovered is now the working through of the subject history, which
carries the mark of both passing time and re-signifying time. It is
precisely the notion of history that gains different dimensions
when a purely deterministic analysis is disassembled. Continuities
and breaks are found between subjective time and chronological
time; between the inevitable decrepitude of the biological body
with the passing of time and the timelessness of the unconscious;
between linear, circular times and retroactive re-signification;
between facts, screen memories, memory and the work of constructing
history; between the times of repetition and the times of
difference; between reversible and irreversible time; between the
timelessness of the unconscious and the temporalities of the ego.
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