Psychoanalytic Explorations of What Women Want Today

In this book, international psychoanalytic writers address the question 'What do Women Want Today?' from a variety of lenses, bringing into focus the creative, resilient forces shown by women in their multiple social and psychological tasks.

Informationen zum Autor Margarita Cereijido, Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty Member of the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. She has written and taught on the areas of gender, culture, and prejudice. She organizes the Culture and Psychoanalysis annual conference at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis and is a member of the Committee of Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP) at the International Psychoanalytic Association. Paula L. Ellman, Ph.D., ABPP., is a training and supervising analyst in the Contemporary Freudian Society, Washington DC, and the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. She is Overall Chair of the IPA Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis and Chair of the IPA Inter-committee Work Group on Prejudice and Race. She is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and is a Board Member of the North America Psychoanalytic Confederation (NAPsaC). Nancy R. Goodman, Ph.D., is a training and supervising analyst with the CFS and the IPA and a faculty member for the Wuhan Training Program, China. She writes about trauma, symbolizing processes, female development, and unconscious fantasy. She is a member of the Asia-Pacific Planning Committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association and Founder and Director of the online Virtual Psychoanalytic Museum with IP Books, and she maintains a psychoanalytic practice in Bethesda, Maryland. Klappentext In this book, international psychoanalytic writers address the question 'What do Women Want Today?' from a variety of lenses, bringing into focus the creative, resilient forces shown by women in their multiple social and psychological tasks.The book reviews classic psychoanalytic theories about the feminine within a new cultural context. It challenges hegemonic gender prejudices and discusses new conceptions that do not pathologize 'different' lifestyles and family configurations. With chapters by leading, international thinkers in the field, this book explores how to think about new feminine scenarios, gender identities, gender dynamics, motherhood, and desire, in light of modern psychoanalytic theories. In presenting how these changing contemporary notions of the feminine challenge classic psychoanalytic theory and practice, this book will compel both training and experienced analysts to think about new psychoanalytic theories and engage with their own prejudices regarding changing notions of the feminine.Offering ideas relevant to psychoanalysis, sociology, gender studies, psychology, and activism, this book will be of great interest to professionals, teachers and students in addition to any with an interest in psychoanalytic theory and women's studies. Zusammenfassung In this book, international psychoanalytic writers address the question 'What do Women Want Today?' from a variety of lenses, bringing into focus the creative, resilient forces shown by women in their multiple social and psychological tasks. Inhaltsverzeichnis Section I 1. "What do Women Want Today?" Margarita Cereijido, Ph.D. 2.Authority, Power and Gender in Institutional Life Virginia Ungar, M.D. Section II: "Current Theories about the Feminine" 3.Liberating "Female" from "Femininity": Helene Deutsch and the Past to Dianne Elise and the Present Rosemary H. Balsam, M.D. 4. The Feminine: Plurality of Desires Leticia Glocer Fiorini, M.D. 5. What Women Want and What Men Want of Women Arlene Kramer Richards, Ed.D. Section III: Gender Relations Today 6: Gender Relations Today Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, M.D. 7: Women and Psychoanalysis across Generations and Diversities. What do Women want Now: Not Answers but Questions Adrienne Harris, Ph.D., Kirsten Lentz, Shubha Herlekar, June Lee Kwon, Romy Reading, Julie Leavitt 8: The Persistent Impact of Stereot...

Autorentext

Margarita Cereijido, Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty Member of the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. She has written and taught on the areas of gender, culture, and prejudice. She organizes the Culture and Psychoanalysis annual conference at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis and is a member of the Committee of Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP) at the International Psychoanalytic Association.

Paula L. Ellman, Ph.D., ABPP., is a training and supervising analyst in the Contemporary Freudian Society, Washington DC, and the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. She is Overall Chair of the IPA Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis and Chair of the IPA Inter-committee Work Group on Prejudice and Race. She is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and is a Board Member of the North America Psychoanalytic Confederation (NAPsaC).

Nancy R. Goodman, Ph.D., is a training and supervising analyst with the CFS and the IPA and a faculty member for the Wuhan Training Program, China. She writes about trauma, symbolizing processes, female development, and unconscious fantasy. She is a member of the Asia-Pacific Planning Committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association and Founder and Director of the online Virtual Psychoanalytic Museum with IP Books, and she maintains a psychoanalytic practice in Bethesda, Maryland.

Klappentext

In this book, international psychoanalytic writers address the question 'What do Women Want Today?' from a variety of lenses, bringing into focus the creative, resilient forces shown by women in their multiple social and psychological tasks. The book reviews classic psychoanalytic theories about the feminine within a new cultural context. It challenges hegemonic gender prejudices and discusses new conceptions that do not pathologize 'different' lifestyles and family configurations. With chapters by leading, international thinkers in the field, this book explores how to think about new feminine scenarios, gender identities, gender dynamics, motherhood, and desire, in light of modern psychoanalytic theories. In presenting how these changing contemporary notions of the feminine challenge classic psychoanalytic theory and practice, this book will compel both training and experienced analysts to think about new psychoanalytic theories and engage with their own prejudices regarding changing notions of the feminine. Offering ideas relevant to psychoanalysis, sociology, gender studies, psychology, and activism, this book will be of great interest to professionals, teachers and students in addition to any with an interest in psychoanalytic theory and women's studies.

Inhalt

Section I

1. "What do Women Want Today?"

Margarita Cereijido, Ph.D.

2.Authority, Power and Gender in Institutional Life

Virginia Ungar, M.D.

Section II: "Current Theories about the Feminine"

3.Liberating "Female" from "Femininity": Helene Deutsch and the Past to Dianne Elise and the Present

Rosemary H. Balsam, M.D.

4. The Feminine: Plurality of Desires

Leticia Glocer Fiorini, M.D.

5. What Women Want and What Men Want of Women

Arlene Kramer Richards, Ed.D.

Section III: Gender Relations Today

6: Gender Relations Today

Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, M.D.

7: Women and Psychoanalysis across Generations and Diversities. What do Women want Now: Not Answers but Questions

Adrienne Harris, Ph.D., Kirsten Lentz, Shubha Herlekar, June Lee Kwon, Romy Reading, Julie Leavitt

8: The Persistent Impact of Stereotypes About Women

Cecile R. Bassen, M.D.

9: "What Should a Wife Want?"

Janice S. Lieberman, Ph.D.

Section IV: Psychoanalysis in the Community

10: Opening Space for Women to Dream and Symbolize when Facing Misogyny: the Need for an Active Bystander Witness

Nancy R. Goodman, Ph.D.

11: What Do…