Female Sexuality: New Psychoanalytic Views by Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel


Female Sexuality: New Psychoanalytic Views
Title : Female Sexuality: New Psychoanalytic Views
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ISBN : 0946439141
ISBN-10 : 9780946439140
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : -
Publication : First published January 1, 1991

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.

Female Sexuality: New Psychoanalytic Views Reviews

  • Micah

    Non-Lacanian (SPP) French analysts enter the debate between Viennese (Freudian) and British (Jones, Klein) theories of female sexuality; roughly, is there one (phallic) libido or two?

    It's not very interesting or informative to say everyone is different, but once you start making generalizations it's dangerous territory. I have to respect people who go down the rabbit hole of "what makes a woman." I can't help but think psychoanalysis has something to offer with a starting point of unconscious fantasies, conflict and ambivalence.

    It seems when Deleuze and Guattari criticized psychoanalysis for being conservative they probably had authors like this foremost in mind. They didn't miss the opportunity to point out that Chasseguet-Smirgel and Grunberger embarrassed themselves by writing (several years after this book) a simplistic attack on May 68. And I can see how these articles could seem narrow, repetitive, "Oedipalizing." No one should end their researches here. But I would be very surprised if unconscious sexual representations didn't enter at all into feminine identities.