Main description:

Illustrated with examples from literature and the arts, including Virginia Woolf and Marguerite Duras.
Explores female subjectivity and examines the complexities inherent to psychoanalytic work realized by women analysts with women.
Includes a critical study on psychoanalytic theories on femininity but also a reflection on social aspects concerning gender.

Contents:

Preface

Series Editor Foreword

Chapter I: The Mother Complex

Chapter II: Loss Of The Object In The Young Homosexual

Chapter III: Women Analyzing Women

Chapter IV: The Daughter's Crucial Challenge: Separation

Chapter V: Gender, The Sexual And The Feminine

Chapter VI: The Feminine And New Conceptions Of Motherhood

Chapter VII: Femininity, Desire And Sublimation

Chapter VIII: The Mother, Trauma And Writing

Chapter IX: The Sexual And Sublimation

Chapter X: The Object In Lacan And In Winnicott

Chapter XI: Psychoanalytic Writing And The Unknown