Female Sexuality: The Early Psychoanalytic Controversies

by Russell Grigg (Editor), Dominique Hecq (Editor), Craig Smith (Editor)

Overview

The papers collected together in this volume laid the groundwork for contemporary psychoanalytic women's studies and gender theory. They cover a period from June 1917, when Johan van Ophuijsen presented his paper on the masculinity complex in women to the Dutch Psycho-Analytical Society, to April 1935, when Ernest Jones read a paper on early female sexuality to the Vienna Psycho-Analytical Society.Although these papers are often referred to in discussions of female sexuality, and although some individual papers have been reproduced elsewhere, they have never before appeared together as a collection. Anyone who has read these papers will be aware of their importance to the topic of female sexuality. But it is not the theme alone that unifies the collection. There are two further considerations of equal importance: the dialogue and debate that take place between the papers, from first to last; and the considerable impact they had on the development of certain of Freud's key themes. The papers have a clear historical interest but rereading them today will also show their continuing relevance to debates within and outside psychoanalysis on female sexuality.This collection contains papers by Karl Abraham, Marie Bonaparte, Ruth Mack Brunswick, Helene Deutsch, Otto Fenichel, Karen Horney, Ernest Jones, Melanie Klein, Jeanne Lampl de Groot, Josine Muller, Carl Muller-Braunschweig, Johan H. W. van Ophuijsen, Joan Riviere, and August Starcke.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781815649
Publisher:	Karnac Books
Publication date:	04/01/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	314
File size:	691 KB

About the Author

Russell Grigg lectures in philosophy and is the co-ordinator of psychoanalytic studies at Deakin University, Australia. Dr Grigg has a PhD in psychoanalysis and has published extensively on psychoanalysis. He is also known for his translations of the seminars of Jacques Lacan. He is currently a psychoanalyst in private practice.
Dominique Hecq is a research fellow in psychoanalytic studies at Deakin University, Australia. Dr Hecq has a PhD in literature and a background in French and German, with qualifications in translating. She has published in the field of literary studies and has had her own stories and poetry published.
Craig Smith is a PhD candidate in psychoanalytic studies at Deakin University, Australia. He has degrees in political science from the University of Melbourne and Victoria University of Wellington.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Notes on the Editors
Biographical Notes
Introduction
1) Contributions to the Masculinity Complex in Women—J. H. W. Van Ophuijsen
2) The Castration Complex—August Stiircke
3) Manifestations of the Female Castration Complex—Karl Abraham
4) Origins and Growth of Object Love—Karl Abraham
5) The Psychology of Women in Relation to the Functions of Reproduction—Helene Deutsch
6) The Flight from Womanhood: The Masculinity Complex in Women, as Viewed by Men and Women—Karen Horney
7) A Contribution to the Problem of Libidinal Development of the Genital Phase in Girls—Josine Muller
8) The Genesis of the Feminine Super-Ego—Carl Muller-Braunschweig
9) The Early Development of Female Sexuality—Ernest Jones
10) Early Stages of the Oedipus Conflict—Melanie Klein
11) The Evolution of the Oedipus Complex in Women—Jeanne Lampl de Groot
12) Womanliness as a Masquerade—Joan Riviere
13) The Significance of Masochism in the Mental Life of Women—Helene Deutsch
14) The Pregenital Antecedents of the Oedipus Complex—Otto Fenichel
15) On Female Homosexuality—Helene Deutsch
16) The Dread of Woman: Observations on a Specific Difference in the Dread Felt by Men and Women Respectively for the Opposite Sex—Karen Horney
17) The Denial of the Vagina: a Contribution to the Problem of the Genital Anxieties Specific to Women—Karen Horney
18) Passivity, Masochism and Femininity—Marie Bonaparte
19) Early Female Sexuality—Ernest Jones
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

A collection of 19 articles that (with two exceptions) were originally published in between June 1917 and April 1935. The editors (all associated with psychoanalytic studies at Deakin U., Australia) present the articles as having not only historical relevance for the groundwork of contemporary theory, but also as addressing issues that are still controversial today, among them mothering, passivity, hysteria, masochism, object choice, and the complex relationship between gender and biology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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