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This book dissects the concepts and characteristics of the feminine in both male and females, separating them from womanhood and femininity, and equipping readers with the tools to better understand pathologies such as masochism, narcissism, depression, and paranoia.
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 The Riddle of the Feminine
The Feminine and Femininity
Hatred of the Feminine or Horror Feminae
Freud and the Woman
What does a Woman Want?
The Feminine in Freud, Winnicott, and Lacan
2 The Feminine and Castration
Psychic Bisexuality
Masculine–Feminine, Activity–Passivity
Narcissistic Feminine
Feminine Narcissism and Traumatic Homosexuality
Sidonie: ‘The Young Homosexual’
Freud’s Analysis
Lacan’s Position
Aesthetic Encounter
The Feminine as Legacy
Natacha
Pauline
3 From the Guilt of Being Feminine to the Feminine Being of Guilt
Julie: ‘As Though it’s My Fault for Being Born!’
Nadia: ‘You Can’t do Anything for Me’
Olga: ‘I Fail at Everything I do’
4 The Feminine Victim
Trauma and Seduction
Feminam Hostia
The Victim and the Law
The Sacrificial Feminine and the Sacred
Oedipus the Scapegoat Victim?
Victimology and Organisation of the Personality
Feminine Masochism in Baudelaire
Freud and the Notion of Victim
The Victim and their Innocence
The Victim is a Martyr of the Unconscious
5 The Melancholic Feminine
Pathological Grief and the Pain of a Bitter Mother
Melancholia and Primary Narcissistic Trauma
Pathological Grief and Melancholic Organisation
Melancholy of Fate
Loss and Guilt
Suicide, Autosadism, and Melancholia
Maternal Passion
Grief, Melancholic sacrifice, and the Feminine
The Diabolical’ Feminine: Hysteria and Melancholia
The melancholic Tear: Neither Living Nor Dying
Double Figures and Narcissistic Relationships
6 Can you be Innocent if you Love Someone Guilty?
Hainamoration in the Love Relationship
The Love-hate Connection in Persecution
Mrs E: ‘Loving Hurts, because Since the Time of Sin, it Means Being Crucified For Someone Else.’
Narcissism, Feminine Masochism, and Paranoia
Love in Persecution, Love of Persecution
Hatred of Paternal Castration
Hatred of the Diabolic Masculine as a Substitute for the Father
Cruelty and Delight or Masochistic Enjoyment of the Feminine
7 Feminine Destiny
Body of Destiny and Destiny of the Body
‘I Missed a Step’: Bad Luck or Doomed Birth?
Negative Narcissistic Exception
Fate and the Mother
The Fate of Transplantation: Solution and/or Problem
Ambiguity of Gift, Debt and Guilt
Negative Therapeutic Reaction
Sublimation: A Bastion Against Destiny
8 Feminine Hypochondria
Hypochondria and Melancholy
Hypochondria, Actual Neurosis
Transnosography: Hypochondria/Psychosis
Feminine Masochism, Narcissism, and Hypochondria
Primary Homosexual Relationship and Hypochondria
Justine: ‘I can’t Stand Being me any More’
Sophie or Hatred of the Mother
9 Feminine Paranoia
Passivation and Feminisation of Schreber
The Narcissistic Feminine and Paranoia
Is the Paranoiac a ‘True’ Victim?
Seduction, Femininity, and Paranoia
Feminine Masochism and Paranoia
Projection and Paranoid Persecution
Lacan’s Foreclosure of the Name‑of‑the‑Father
Primitive Homosexual Hatred and Paranoia
Seduction, Frustration, and Harassment in Feminine Paranoia
Daniel
When the Worst is yet to Come in Persecution
Transformation, Division, and Splitting of the Self
Logical Loss and the Logic of Loss
Stolen Thoughts and Lost Identity
The Body Hears
The Anxiety of Being ‘Forsaken’
Feminine Masochism and Persecution
Paranoia Somatica
Mephitic Mephistopheles in the Paranoid Body
Anxiety about the Loss of Knowing/Having [Savoir/Avoir]
The Disseminated’ Body
‘You have to Die in Order to Live’
Regression, Castration, and anal Eroticism
Sacrificial Giving, Masochism, and Megalomania
Feminine or ‘Sacrifixion’
10 Feminine Masochism
Rousseau’s Feminine Masochism
Masochism and Dreamlike Punishment
The Desire for Displeasure
Sadomasochism of Compulsion Neurosis
Moral Masochism, the Need for Punishment and Unconscious Guilt
Active Masochism: Negativity in Treatment and in Life
Feminine Masochism as the Negative of Sadism
Masochism and Introjected or Auto-Objectal Narcissistic Sadism
The Return of Primary Masochism
At the Edge of Displeasure: Jouissance
Repetition Compulsion, the Displeasure Principle, and the Death Drive
Melancholy or Death Masochism
Death Masochism and Instinctual Disintegration
Life masochism or the Primacy of Moral Conscience and Eros
Conclusion
References
Index of Names
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