The first volume of its kind, this edited collection brings together classic texts in the history of psychoanalysis and developing theory to examine gender and envy. Bringing to light the ways in which our preoccupation with the Freudian concept of penis envy has both revealed and obscured fundamental psychological insights, the essays also form bridges across many disciplines and schools of psychological thought. From foundational works by Freud, Klein, and Horney to the current scholarship of Fast, Torok and Friedman, Gender and Envy brings together a library of critical thinking on the ongoing discussion of envy, gender and psychoanalysis.
PART I--The Emergence of a Point of Tension
Introduction
1. Sigmund Freud--Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction Between the Sexes
2. Karen Horney--The Flight from Womanhood
3. Melanie Klein--Early Stages of the Oedipus Complex
PART II--Penis Envy: Foundation or Delusion?
Introduction
4. John A. Friedman--Gender and Envy in Freud's Discourse
5. Luce Irigaray--The Blind Spot of an Old Dream of Symmetry (excerpt from Speculum of the Other Woman)
6. Maria Torok--The Significance of Penis Envy in Women
7. Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel--The Female Castration Complex and Penis Envy (excerpt)
8. Jessica Benjamin--Father and Daughter: Identification with Difference--A Contribution to Gender Heterodoxy
PART III--The Debate Broadens
Introduction
9. Irene Fast--Developments in Gender Identity: The Original Matrix (Introduction to Gender Identity)
10. Eva Feder Kittay--Mastering Envy: From Freud's Narcissistic Wounds to Bettelheim's Symbolic Wounds to a Vision of Healing
11. Christiane Olivier--In the Beginning Was Freud (and other excerpts from Jocasta's Children)
12. Sigmund Freud--Some Neurotic Mechanisms in Jealousy, Paranoia, and Homosexuality
13. Susan Kavaler-Adler--Vaginal Core or Vampire Mouth: The Visceral Level of Envy in Women: An Exploration of the Protosymbolic Politics of Object Relations
PART IV--Gender and Envy through the Life-Span
Introduction
14. Robert May--Reflections on Envy, with Special Attention to the College Years
15. Peter Shabad--The Evil Eye of Envy: Parental Possessiveness and the Rivalry for a New Beginning
16. David Gutmann--Male Envy Across the Life-Span
PART V--Gender and Envy in Social and Cultural Life
Introduction
17. Teresa Brennan--The Foundational Fantasy (excerpt from History After Lacan)
18. Marjorie Garber--Fetish Envy
19. Clayton Koelb--Castration Envy: Nietzche and the Figure of Woman
Biography
Nancy Burke is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School, a Staff Psychologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and a private practitioner in Chicago.
"Nancy Burke has brought psychoanalytic ideas into the present with a rich and rewarding collection. Her organization of the chapters fosters enhanced understanding of the complex issue of relations between men and women in psychological development and social life. This classic volume should be part of the library of professional and student alike." -- Betram J. Cohler, Professor of Psychology, University of Chicago
"Gender and Envy is an exciting book. By constantly crossing the border between clinical psychoanalysis and theory of literature, Nancy Burke builds a road between two bodies of literature and between two groups of thinkers in the question of what makes psychological humanity possible. I recommend its use as a text in psychoanalytic training and as a reader for experienced clinicians." -- Arlene Kramer Richards, author of The Spectrum of Psychoanalysis
