1st Edition
Women's Aggressive Fantasies A Post-Jungian Exploration of Self-Hatred, Love and Agency
By Sue Austin
Copyright 2005
288 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
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How can a woman's self-hatred contain the seeds of her psychological growth? Can aggressive energies form the basis of recovery from eating disorders? Women's Aggressive Fantasies examines the roles of aggressive fantasies and impulses in contemporary women's lives. Such impulses have previously been overlooked by psychoanalysis, feminism and depth psychology when, Sue Austin argues, they... Read more
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Biography
Sue Austin
"This very useful book takes its place amongst the new literature of psychoanalytic thought...Its emphasis on women and gender give the book a particular place in understanding the influences of culture on the human mind." - Jean Thomson, Psychodynamic Practice, August 2007
