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Revenge and Forgiveness in Psychoanalysis: Commentary on Stephen Wangh's >Revenge and Forgiveness in Laramie, Wyoming<

  • This. Reply offers clarification of the author's thesis. What was originally a reciprocal, pleasurable experience for each sex of mutual interpenetration with the preoedipal mother devolves into a split, gendered polarity. The specific form this takes for a boy – repudiation of identification with the mother and with maternal qualities – is seen to be detrimental to male development. I theorize a culturally normative, gender-specific neurosis caused not by maternal care but by the difficulty in male development of continuing to incorporate the surplus pleasures of maternal penetration given a problematic model of masculinity. My aim in >Unlawful Entry< is not to reverse gendered power relations but to forward their elimination.

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Author:Dianne Elise
Parent Title (English):Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 11 (2001), pp. 561-570.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2001
Release Date:2017/11/20
Format:xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage
IdNo:Elise_D_2001a
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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