Dialogues on Sexuality, Gender and Psychoanalysis

by Irene Matthis

Overview

'There are more questions than answers in this book - questions that are important and will continue to intrigue us. This book will be needed to remind us of the different opinions and to help us create tomorrow's theories. Human experience cannot be reduced to sexuality, but there is sexuality in everything human.'- From the Introduction A challenging exploration of contemporary theories on femininity with cutting-edge papers from leading analysts, this volume presents a thought-provoking dialogue on femininity, sexuality, gender and masculinity. These key issues are analysed and discussed in new and stimulating ways, whilst familiar concepts are dissected and dismantled to bring forward fresh ideas. The diversity and developments currently advancing studies on femininity towards new understandings are shown clearly throughout. This rich and inspiring collection of papers grew from the "Sexuality and Gender" conference held in Sweden in 2002, organised by the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis. The conference was created with the conscious intent of bringing different ideas to bear upon each other in order to promote further research into this vital area.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855753501
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/01/2004
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Irene Matthis is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Assistant Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at Umeå University in Sweden. She is a training analyst and teacher at the Swedish Psychoanalytic Institute (IPA) and the Scandinavia Co-ordinator for IPA--COWAP. She is a Board Member of the International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Society and editor of the Bulletin Section of the international journal Neuro-Psychoanalysis. She is the author of several books and papers, including, in Swedish: Det omedvetnas arkeologi, [The Archeology of the Unconscious], Natur och Kultur, 1992; Den tänkande kroppen, [The Thinking Body] Stockholm: Natur och Kultur, 1997; and, in English: On Freud’s Couch, (Matthis, I. & Szecsödy, I. (eds.), New York: Aronson, 1998; Sketch for a Metapsychology of Affects, In: Int. Journal of Psychoanalysis, no. 81:2. 2000; Finger–twisting and Cracked Voices: The Hysterical Symptom Revisited, In: Scharff, D.E. (ed.), The Psychoanalytic Century: Freud’s Legacy for the Future, New York: Other Press; Strangebody, In: The Embodied Female, Alizade, M. (ed.), London & New York: Karnac, 2002.

Table of Contents

Preface , Dialogues on sexuality and gender , Freud and female sexualities , Some observations on female sexuality , Phallacies of binary reasoning: drive beyond gender , The difference between gender and sexual difference , Gender and sexual difference , From femininity to finitude: Freud, Lacan, and feminism, again , Femininity theory, theories of women, or feminist theory? , Revisiting the riddle of sex: an intersubjective view of masculinity and femininity , The economy of freedom , Beyond sexual difference: clinical individuality and same-sex cross-generation relations in the creation of feminine and masculine

Editorial Reviews

"There are more questions than answers in this book; questions that are important and will continue to intrigue us. This book will be needed to remind us of the different opinions and help us create tomorrow’s theories. Human experience cannot be reduced to sexuality, but there is sexuality in everything human."

From the Publisher

"There are more questions than answers in this book; questions that are important and will continue to intrigue us. This book will be needed to remind us of the different opinions and help us create tomorrow’s theories. Human experience cannot be reduced to sexuality, but there is sexuality in everything human."

From the Introduction by Iréne Matthis