The Gendered Unconscious: Can Gender Discourses Subvert Psychoanalysis?

by Louise Gyler

Feminist interventions in psychoanalysis have often attempted either to subvert or re-frame the masculinist and phallocentric biases of Freud's psychoanalysis. This book investigates the nature of these interventions by comparing the status and treatment of women in two different psychoanalytic models: the Kleinian and the feminist models. It argues that, in fact, these interventions have historically tended to reinforce such biases by collapsing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415401712
• ISBN13: 9780415401715
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"