Mothers and Daughters and the Origins of Female Subjectivity
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : January 2007
- Cover : Paperback
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 25153
- ISBN 13 : 9780415386746
- ISBN 10 : 0415386748
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"Mother and Daughters and the Origins of Female Subjectivity" challenges the theory of the Oedipus complex, which permeates psychoanalytic theory, psychology, semiotics and cultural studies. The book focuses on the re-examination of women's development through the theories of primitive mental states. Women's subjectivity has been profoundly limited by continuing anxieties about the mother's body. Jane Van Buren describes how women are gradually escaping the curse of inferiority and finding a voice, enabling the mother to provide their daughters with a legacy of rightful agency over their bodies and minds.
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Drawing on the theories of Klein, Bion and Winnicott, and incorporating recent developments in psychobiology, this book provides a novel approach to subjects including the dreams, myths and phantasies of individuals, the nature of mother and daughter relationships, sexuality, pregnancy, menstruation and the idea of the mother's body as problematic and dangerous. This interdisciplinary investigation into curtailed female subjectivity and its many ramifications in society, culture and individual mental growth will be of great interest to all practising psychoanalysts, and those studying psychoanalytic theory and gender studies.
Table of Contents
Grotstein, Foreword. Introduction. Silences from the Deep: Women's Subjectivity and the Voice of the Turtle. Female Subjectivity. Saint Anne And Two Others: Configuration Of The Grandmother Within the Dreaming Couple. The Daughter's Body: The Site of the Haunting. The Infant Subject In Vivo. The Daughter's Body, Part II
Author Biography
Jane Van Buren is a Psychoanalyst in full time private practice in Los Angeles, California. She has written widely on the themes of women and children, culture and psychoanalysis.
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Jane Van Buren is a Psychoanalyst in full time private practice in Los Angeles, California and training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Centre of California. She has written widely on the themes of women and children, culture and psychoanalysis.
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