Sexual Difference. Masculinity and Psychoanalysis

✍ Scribed by Stephen Frosh

• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 164
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Sexual Difference is a critical exploration of psychoanalytic theories of sexual difference. In particular it explores the way in which masculinity is expressed in theory and practice. Developing from the unsettling impact of these issues on the author's own professional practice, Stephen Frosh examines how the very language and structure of psychoanalysis are loaded with assumptions about gender. Employing both Kleinian and Lacanian theoretical perspectives this book critically examines these approacheds to sexial difference. In addition, it discusses the application of these issues in the practice of treating sexual violence and in cases of child secual abuse. Sexual Difference will be of value to all trainees and professionals in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, psychology and social work, as well as all those with an interest in masculinity',femininity' and their effects.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Finding sexual difference......Page 12
Psychoanalysis and sexual difference......Page 29
Inside the dream......Page 52
Masculine mastery and fantasy, or the meaning of the phallus......Page 76
The seeds of masculine sexuality......Page 100
Transgressing sexual difference......Page 127
References......Page 156
Name index......Page 160
Subject index......Page 162