1st Edition
The Castration Complex What is So Natural About Sexuality?
Foreword
Chapter 1 Castration complex for Freud between 1907-1909Chapter 2 Castration complex for Freud in 1925
Chapter 3 Freud’s theories of Castration in Female Sexuality (1931b)
Chapter 4 Brief introduction to bisexual disposition and its place within Freud’s psychoanalytic theories
Chapter 5 New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis - Lecture XXXIII Femininity (1933a)
Chapter 6 Castration for Lacan Seminar IV (1956-57)
Chapter 7 The fate of infantile sexual research questions
Biography
Mou Sultana is a practising psychoanalyst in private practice in Ireland. She also works as a psychotherapist with Health Services Executives, Probation Services and the Irish Department of Justice.
"It is apt that In this era of gender fluidity, Mou Sultana has written such an accessible and theoretically illuminating psychoanalytic work on the nature of psychosexual development. Her argument that the acquisition of sexuality is a phenomenon of the subject taking up a position (or not), as opposed to the idea of the subject being given his or her sexuality by nature, biology, anatomy, or society, is persuasive and so relevant at this time. Some readers may be put off by the title Castration Complex, as if it is an outdated concept. Don’t be. This is a book for our times. I highly recommend it."-Prof Anthony McCarthy, former president and founder member, The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland.
