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