The Interpretation of the Flesh [NOOK Book]

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The 'riddle of femininity', like Freud's reference to women's sexuality as a 'dark continent', has been treated as a romantic aside or a sexist evasion, rather than a problem to be solved. In this first comprehensive study, Teresa Brennan suggests that by placing these theories in the context of Freud's work overall, we will begin to understand why femininity was such a riddle for Freud.
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The Interpretation of the Flesh

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Overview

The 'riddle of femininity', like Freud's reference to women's sexuality as a 'dark continent', has been treated as a romantic aside or a sexist evasion, rather than a problem to be solved. In this first comprehensive study, Teresa Brennan suggests that by placing these theories in the context of Freud's work overall, we will begin to understand why femininity was such a riddle for Freud.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780203011102
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
  • Publication date: 9/17/1992
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • File size: 926 KB

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Note on translations and texts
1 The riddle of femininity 1
Freud's two theories of femininity 9
Metapsychology and the two 'spatial' topographies 17
Psychical reality: time lost 25
Memory guide 30
2 The riddle's repression 37
Freud's three papers on femininity, female sexuality, and the 'Great Debate' 39
Subsequent developments 65
The second debate 66
Freud's last words 81
3 The division of attention 83
The Studies on hysteria 86
The divergence from Breuer 101
Constructed inertia 107
The defence of repression 119
4 The involution of the drives 135
The analogy theory and the libido 137
The quantitative factor 143
The unclear origins of the drives 147
Involution: femininity and the 1911 theory of the ego 158
Hypothesizing 170
5 The original superego 178
Freud and the Superego 179
Freud and Klein 190
Love and Hate 194
Masochism 196
6 Conclusion: the riddle again 216
Bibliography: Freud 241
Select bibliography 248
Index 259
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