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Routledge
252 Pages
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Routledge
504 Pages
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Routledge
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‘A state of mourning is something that the late twentieth century has been uniquely unable to achieve. A culture based on the interchongeobility of products and people, a throw-away culture, is not conducive to mourning…Inanimate objects hove replaced human ideals. A culture of ‘virtual reality’ which finds it difficult to distinguish between the living and the inanimate has been created - a... Read more
A Note on Texts -- Introduction -- Clytemnestra and Count Dracula -- Matricide and the Oedipus Complex -- Masculinity and Matricide -- Masculinity, Femininity, and the Death Instinct -- Freud and Femininity -- Mothers and Daughters -- Matricide and the Mother-Daughter Relationship -- The Father-Daughter Romance -- Beauty and the Beast: the Father-Daughter Relationship -- Aggression and Femininity -- Two Women in the Consulting-Room -- The Search for an Alternative Space
Biography
Christina Wieland is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice and a fellow of the University of Essex, teaching at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies. She has a special interest in psychoanalysis, gender and culture, and has published numerous papers in this area.
