Gender in Psychoanalytic Space: Between Clinic and Culture

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Muriel Dimen, Virginia Goldner
Other Press, LLC, 2002 - Philosophy - 368 pages
"Here is a book that both creates and illuminates the space where psychoanalysis, feminism, gender studies, and sexualities join. . . . A collection of cutting edge work that brims with the excitement of new possibility."
-Dr. Sam Gerson
Combining clinical psychoanalysis with feminism, postmodernism, and psychoanalytic theory, this pioneering collection represents a major step forward in psychoanalytic gender studies.
 

Contents

Melancholy GenderRefused Identification
3
The Mystery of Homosexuality
21
Gender Splitting
41
Toward a Critical Relational Theory of Gender
63
Gender as Contradiction
91
The Internalized Primal Scene
119
An Overinclusive View
181
Gender as a Personal and Cultural Construction
237
Women and Psychoanalysis
263
Race in Psychoanalytic Space
313
Index
353
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