The female body : inside and outside / edited by Ingrid Moeslein-Teising, Frances Thomson-Salo.

"This book gathers together a number of cutting edge contributions about the female body, inside and out, from a large group of psychoanalysts who are at the forefront of new thinking about issues of femininity, the female body, sex and gender. It explores the female body in art, in pregnancy and mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: International Psycho-Analytical Association
Other Authors: Moeslein-Teising, Ingrid (Editor)
Thomson Salo, Frances (Editor)
Language:English
Published: London : Karnac Books, 2013.
Series:Psychoanalytic ideas and applications series.
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Physical Description:278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The female body in Western art: adoration, attraction and horror / Laurie Wilson
  • How deep is the skin? Surface and depth in Lucian Freud's female nudes / Rotraut De Clerck
  • Alberto Giacometti's Caress/Despite the Hands: developing and vanished life as a reversible figure---nucleus of an adequate expression of the struggle for the acknowledgment of space and time? / Claudia Frank
  • The female cauldron: reproductive body schemata fore-grounded by infertility / Joan Raphael-Leff
  • The Medea fantasy: an evitable burden during prenatal diagnostics? Psychoanalysis, gender and medicine in dialogue / Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber
  • Inside the mother's womb: the Mother-Embryo-Dialogue / Ute Auhagen-Stephanos
  • The female body as cultural playground / Marianne Springer-Kremser
  • Wetlands (Feuchtgebiete)---or: rage, body and hysteria / Thomas Ettl
  • Vicissitudes of female revenge / Elina Reenkola
  • Female sexuality beyond gender dichotomy / Ilka Quindeau
  • Change and renewal in a woman's life / Mariam Alizade
  • Menopause dreams / Teresa Rocha Leite Haudenschild.