On Feminine Sexuality

Download or read book Feminine Sexuality written by Jacques Lacan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacques Lacan is arguably the most controversial psychoanalyst of our time.

Download or read book On Feminine Sexuality written by Jacques Lacan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his psycholinguistic exploration of the relationship between the desire for love and the attainment of knowledge, Jacques Lacan leads into an new way of interpreting the two most fundamental human drives.

Download or read book Reading Seminar XX written by Suzanne Barnard and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers the first sustained, in-depth commentary on Seminar XX, Encore, considered the cornerstone of Lacan's work on the themes of sexual difference, knowledge, jouissance, and love. Although Seminar XX was originally popularized as Lacan's treatise on feminine sexuality, these essays, by some of today's foremost Lacanian scholars, go beyond feminine sexuality to address Lacan's significant intertwining concern with the rupture between reality and the real produced by modern science, and the implications of this rupture for subjectivity, knowledge, jouissance, and the body. The essays clarify basic concepts, but for readers already familiar with Lacan they also offer sophisticated workings-through of the more challenging and obscure arguments in Encore—both by tracing their historical development across Lacan's œuvre and by demonstrating their relation to particular philosophical, theological, mathematical, and scientific concepts. They cover much of the terrain necessary for understanding sexual difference—not in terms of chromosomes, body parts, choice of sexual partner, or varieties of sexual practice—but in terms of one's position vis-à-vis the Other and the kind of jouissance one is able to obtain. In so doing, they make significant interventions in the debates regarding sex, gender, and sexuality in feminist theory, philosophy, queer theory, and cultural studies.

Download or read book Female Sexuality written by Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel and published by Cork University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains six essays and an introduction on Freudian and non-Freudian views of female sexuality. Contributors include Joyce McDougal, Maria Torok and Bela Grunberger.

Download or read book Reclaiming Goddess Sexuality written by Linda E. Savage and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women seek individual self-expression and yearn for intimacy in relationships, yet they do not want to have to choose between the two. The desire to know and be known intimately by a partner is intrinsic to the feminine way. This fascinating self help book brings you a road map to finding your uniquely female sexual expression, creating deeply satisfying and balanced relationships. It blends the ancient wisdom of the Goddess cultures with current clinical findings to create a new model of female sexuality. The ancient matrilineal societies offer valuable insights into the mysteries of sexuality that can result in renewed sexual interest for contemporary women. It presents a clear step-by step guide to building new pathways towards true sexual partnership.

Download or read book Fantasies of Femininity written by Jane M. Ussher and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fantasies of Femininity, Jane Ussher focuses on unraveling the contradictory visions of feminine sexuality: the fact that representations of the definition of woman seethe with sexuality yet for centuries women have been condemned for exploring their own sexual desires. In her quest for the sources of feminine representation, Ussher interviewed dozens of women - as well as some men - and combed popular media - from Seventeen to Cosmopolitan and Dallas to Donahue - to identify what shapes women's symbolic images of sex and femininity. Ussher argues that women have effectively resisted and subverted these archetypal fantasies of femininity, and in the process of so doing, reframed the very boundaries of sex. In this way, she exposes as myth much of what we think we know about "woman" and about "sex."

Download or read book Facing the Complexities of Women's Sexual Desire written by Vera S. Maass and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on a problem frequently encountered by sex and family therapists, psychologists and primary care physicians: women’s sexual desire or lack thereof. The book covers both research and clinical interventions, and outlines factors that contribute to the decline in sexual desire in women of various ages. The text describes therapeutic steps which can be undertaken with the guidance of a therapist or by the woman herself.