Psychoanalysis and Woman is a source book that makes available a range of psychoanalytic writing on the topics of female sexuality and 'woman'. Sample 'seminal' essays by Freud, Jung and Lacan appear in a collection that is otherwise authored by women. From Freud's contemporaries through new French feminisms to postmodernism and post-feminism, a spectrum of female theorists affords comparison and cross-reference. Specific debates are indicated and some unexpected alignments are revealed on the unresolved issue of what 'woman' is.
Very comprehensive reader containing all the basic texts that are vital in this subject as well as some new and imaginative reinterpretations
Clear and accessible introductory material in each chapter places the essays carefully in context
Inclusion of both male and female theorists and practitioners and the insistence on a return to the original texts make this volume unique
Shelley Saguaro
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