Motherhood and Sexuality

By Marie Langer

Book Overview

A reprint of a translation of a work first published in 1951 ( Maternidad y Sexo ) by Marie Langer (1910-1987), a prominent Viennese-born psychoanalyst who emigrated to Latin America prior to WWII.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898620937
• ISBN13: 9780898620931
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Empathy, respect, and a lot of heart for the female experience

I first read this book during my college years (in the late 70's) I own it since and loved it ever since, to this day. It has been my companion and informed me in my early realitionships, pregnancy, motherhood, and parenting of a girl child. I resonate with every bit of it and appreciate the empathy and soulfulness of the treatment. I have to say that I'm familiar with and appreciate both the psychonalyitic framing and experience. I also spent my early adult life in Buenos Aires, where the author lived and wrote this book (which I own in the original language). I'm coming back to this book with my daughter in puberty and myself looking for a second child in middle age. As a science student in Buenos Aires that became a university professor in the US, I also cherish the author's understanding that a full life for a woman has both room for relationship, motherhood, parenting, and a fulfilling job. This is my most beloved book. I gave it to my yoga instructor, an adorable woman whose day job is in children's mental health care, and whose education is in psychoanalysis.