The papers collected together in this volume laid the groundwork for contemporary psychoanalytic women's studies and gender theory. Many of the issues are still relevant today, among them mothering, passivity, hysteria, masochism, object choice, and the complex relationship between gender and biology. Included are papers by, amongst others, Abraham, Deutsch, Horney, and Klein. Contents: Preface
Acknowledgments
Notes on the Editors
Biographical Notes
Introduction
1) Contributions to the Masculinity Complex in Women—J. H. W. Van Ophuijsen
2) The Castration Complex—August Stiircke
3) Manifestations of the Female Castration Complex—Karl Abraham
4) Origins and Growth of Object Love—Karl Abraham
5) The Psychology of Women in Relation to the Functions of Reproduction—Helene Deutsch
6) The Flight from Womanhood: The Masculinity Complex in Women, as Viewed by Men and Women—Karen Horney
7) A Contribution to the Problem of Libidinal Development of the Genital Phase in Girls—Josine Muller
8) The Genesis of the Feminine Super-Ego—Carl Muller-Braunschweig
9) The Early Development of Female Sexuality—Ernest Jones
10) Early Stages of the Oedipus Conflict—Melanie Klein
11) The Evolution of the Oedipus Complex in Women—Jeanne Lampl de Groot
12) Womanliness as a Masquerade—Joan Riviere
13) The Significance of Masochism in the Mental Life of Women—Helene Deutsch
14) The Pregenital Antecedents of the Oedipus Complex—Otto Fenichel
15) On Female Homosexuality—Helene Deutsch
16) The Dread of Woman: Observations on a Specific Difference in the Dread Felt by Men and Women Respectively for the Opposite Sex—Karen Horney
17) The Denial of the Vagina: a Contribution to the Problem of the Genital Anxieties Specific to Women—Karen Horney
18) Passivity, Masochism and Femininity—Marie Bonaparte
19) Early Female Sexuality—Ernest Jones
Bibliography
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