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Title: The Many Faces of Eros: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Human Sexuality by Joyce McDougall ISBN: 0-393-70215-4 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Inventive and Compassionate
Comment: Joyce McDougall's work reminds me of Otto Kernberg's in that she is determined to examine subjective experience through close adherence to classical Freudian theory. However much one thinks that theory no longer applies, at least in those dusty metaphors, her use of it (like Kernberg's) illuminates areas of psychic experience that other psychoanalytic theory can't touch. Moving, clear-sighted, strange, and loving, McDougall's work is essential reading for anyone with an interest in coming to terms with inexorably perverse modes of interacting with the world. My only caveat is that case illustrations tend to be unnecessarily rigid and at times withholding in their presentation (though they also seem unfailingly honest).
Rating: 4
Summary: Understanding sexuality
Comment: From reading McDougall's book I came to learn about modern psychoanalytic approaches to(explanations of) human sexuality. The book consists of two different kinds of content "general theory" and "cases". The general theory is statements that deal with how and why the child and adolescent come form sexual attitudes and behaviour. McDougall transformed some of my understanding here since I had a quite roughly hewn image of psychoanalytical (Freudian) ideas of the child's development. Whether or not my image was stereotypical or if its Freud's theories who're simple I have no way of knowing - since the only Freudian texts I've read are "Leonardo da Vinici" and a transcript of the "Woman as castrated man" lecture.
However, McDougall's theory (sections) is a bit more allowing and seems to be more adequate, when I compare with my own experience. Her cases are mixed: one about a woman and the subsequent analysis of her dreams - an analysis which, among other things delved into some French etymology was a bit lost on me. But, the others were better. One about a man that only wanted to have sexual relations with women who had been with men of dark complexion was very interesting.
The analysis of homosexuality, bisexuality, and perhaps especially the analysis of the relationship between neurosis and creativity was interesting. (I liked the notion that the artist's _oeuvre_ could be compared to children "a child of the mind", explaining that many artists (writers) have children late in life or not at all).
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Title: Theaters of the Body: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic Illness by Joyce McDougall ISBN: 0393700828 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Theaters of the Mind: Illusion and Truth on the Psychoanalytic Stage by Joyce McDougall ISBN: 0876306482 Publisher: Brunner/Mazel Publisher Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality by W. Ronald D. Fairbairn, W.R.D. Fairbairn ISBN: 0415107377 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $31.95 |
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Title: Envy and Gratitude (1946 - 1963) by Melanie Klein ISBN: 0743237757 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1984 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Standing in the Spaces: Clinical Process, Trauma, and Dissociation by Phillip M. Bromberg ISBN: 0881633569 Publisher: Analytic Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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