The Gendered Unconscious

Can Gender Discourses Subvert Psychoanalysis?

By: Louise Gyler

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Hardcover | 7 April 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Feminist interventions in psychoanalysis have often attempted either to subvert or reframe the masculinist and phallocentric biases of Freud's psychoanalysis.
,br>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 the distinction between the gendered minds of individuals and theories of gender.

This investigation is framed by two steps. First, in assessing the position of women and the feminine in psychoanalysis, The Gendered Unconscious explores not only the ways they are represented in theory, but also how these representations function in practice. Secondly, this book uses a framework of a comparative dialogue to highlight the assumptions and values that underpin the theory and clinical practice in the two psychoanalytic models.

This comparative critique concludes with the counterintuitive claim that contemporary Kleinian theory may, in practice, hold more radical possibilities for the interests of women than the practices derived from contemporary psychoanalytic gender theory.

This book is of significant interest to those studying the psychology of women, psychoanalytic studies, health psychology, sociology, gender studies and cultural studies. It will also be of interest to clinicians and candidates of professional psychotherapy and psychoanalytic training programmes.

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"Gyler has given us an erudite, detailed, historical compendium of psychoanalytic thought that encompasses Freud, Klein, and contemporary feminist psychoanalysts." - Ruth S. Fischer, in Psychoanalytic Quarterly "Louise Gyler provides an excellently well-researched, intelligently written, critical up-date on feminism and psychoanalysis. She systematically exposes the role of gender in the theories and clinical practice of influential psychoanalysts and explicates the gendered perspectives on psychoanalysis developed by leading feminist theorists." - Janet Sayers, Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology, University of Kent, UK

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Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction: The sex question, psychoanalysis and feminism	p. 1
Concepts, values and assumptions: Freud and Klein	p. 24
Developments in psychoanalytic feminist theories of gender	p. 58
Clinical practice: ôSilencing effectsö	p. 88
The depressive position, the Oedipus complex and thinking beyond categorization	p. 116
Klein and perilous connections: Aggression, negativity and thought	p. 142
Conclusion: Theory and practice: Conscious desires and unconscious identifications	p. 165
References	p. 172
Index	p. 187
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