Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel
Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel was Vice President of the International Psychoanalytic Association, and wrote extensively on psychoanalytic topics. Her works, in English translation, include Creativity and Perversion, The Ego Ideal and Freud or Reich?. She has also edited and contributed to Female Sexuality: New Psychoanalytic Views.
Creativity and Perversion
Explores the relationship and contrast between the creative mind and 'the artful universe of the pervert'.
Female Sexuality: New Psychoanalytic Views
Female Sexuality represents a distinct contribution to the psychoanalytic study of feminine psychology and sexual identity. First published in France as Recherches psychanalytiques nouvelles sur la... (more)
Sexuality and Mind: The Role of the Father and Mother in the Psyche
This book examine the role of the Oedipus complex in the psyche and relate it to urgent issues of social and cultural life, historical and current.
"Freud and Female Sexuality" (1975), the first... (more)
The Body as Mirror of the World
Is today's thinking conditioned by body-mind dualism? A rebellion against the biological order seems to have silently infiltrated our world view. Suicide bombers appear to share the fascination with... (more)
The Ego Ideal: A Psychoanalytic Essay on the Malady of the Ideal
Examines the role of the ego-ideal not only in narcissism but in its connection to psychic life and society. (more)