The War on Women in Psychoanalytic Theory Building

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Other cultures are, of course, engaged in overt, vigorous wars against women and in major oppression, but most of these cultures have had little to do with the maintenance or the creation of psychoanalysis.

In this regard it likely still makes a difference that Miss Freud never questioned her father's “truth.”.

It is fair to say she had also violated boundaries with supervisees, but that was not the overt citation of her dismissal, which was her latest book, one that had overlooked libido theory in favor of the social dynamics that shaped people's development. (This was unlike her papers cited here, which still adhered to libido theory and were directly corrective of Freud's view of girls and women.).

Millett, Dinnerstein, Rich, and Chodorow, as mentioned above, or Jane Gallop, Mary Ellman, and many others.

This paper and others of his have been influential in my own work on trying to restore interest in the female body in procreation.

“Human Trafficking: A Psychoanalytic and Socio-Historical View,” by Adrienne Harris, on the Public Seminar Web site, Oct. 27, 2014. Posted on the Web site of International Psychoanalysis, http://www.publicseminar.org/2014/10/human-trafficking/#.VclABEUXqf6.

This paper was first published in the 1976 female supplement issue of Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (Blum, 1976).

They also noted some gray-haired older men discreetly walking out when I reached patients’ descriptions of their labor or C-sections!.

Melanie Klein herself created a fine beginning toward the “sexed and gendered” story.

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Rosemary H. Balsam

Rosemary Balsam is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Yale Medical School; Staff Psychiatrist in the Department of Student Mental Health and Counseling, Yale University; and Training and Supervising Analyst in the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis.