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Book SynopsisPsychoanalysis has traditionally viewed women as objects of desire. Rethinking the Relation between Women and Psychoanalysis uses a contemporary psychoanalytic view to resituate women’s place in the narrative as desiring subjects. Contributors to this collection raise questions about the status of woman in culture and society and contend with the theme of loss and mourning that has been associated with women since the beginning of psychoanalysis. The various configurations of mourning, pain, regret, and grieving in diverse societies and cultures are explored in order to reconstruct the role of women in modern psychoanalysis.
Trade Review“Rethinking the Relation between Women and Psychoanalysis shows the fundamental complexity of the relationship between loss, mourning, grief and femininity. It is an indispensable tool in order to think about women’s position nowadays. Editor Hada Soria Escalante and the contributors have made an extraordinary work. It brings variety and innovation to the subject of loss and femininity that is very useful, especially for those who are interested in the clinical practice and the investigation of the contemporary psychoanalysis.” -- Adriana Bauab, Freudian School of Buenos Aires
“The contributors to Rethinking the Relation between Women and Psychoanalysis have a diverse cultural belonging, and their orientations offer an interesting contrast in the study of mourning. The study of mourning is very important in a global social context that tends to deny the lack or to ‘correct’ it with merchandises.” -- Araceli Colín, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro
Table of ContentsChapter 1: On Mourning's End: Sacrificial Feminine Positions And Their Intolerable Revelation Before The Death Of The Father Hada Soria Escalante Chapter 2: Phantoms of Foreclosed Mourning Marilyn Charles Chapter 3: Devil! Sing Me The Blues… Story of a Life Struggling to be Born Shalini Masih Chapter 4: Killing Death With Silence: Women in the Colombian Post-Agreement Era Angélica Toro Cardona Chapter 5: On the Construction of Maternity Paola J. González Castro Chapter 6: The Sanguinary Dimension of Jealousy: Pain, Grief, and Unbending Certainty Mario Orozco Guzmán Chapter 7: Grief, Rêve and Son-Au-Dela Carolina Koretzky Chapter 8: On the Unconscious as Faith in Hidden Meaning at the Twilight of Analysis David Hafner
