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Female Sexuality: New Psychoanalytic Views
English, French (translation)
- GenresPsychoanalysis
220 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1964
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August 7, 2024
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.
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.
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