A Comparative Analysis of Traditional Psychoanalysis and Feminist Psychoanalysis through the Role of the Father in Women's Sexuality
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Authors
Semaan, Melanie
Issue Date
2003
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Thesis
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en_US
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Feminist psychoanalysis grew out of this opposition to Freud's theory. Its origins began
with Karen Horney, a psychologist who challenged Freud with her essays on femininity
and female sexuality. She created a model of a primarily "feminine" woman with
positive self-judgment, disputing Freud's model of a forever defective woman with an
inferior status. Although Horney's theories did not make an impact at the time, the
current revival of interest of the psychology of women due to the feminist movement
made her theories "the basis for most of the recent revisions of psychoanalytic
understandings of gender" (Chodorow, 1989, p.3). Contemporary feminist psychologists
such as Therese Benedek, Nancy Chodorow, Susan Contratto and Janine ChassuguetSmirgel,
have followed Horney in her fight against traditional psychoanalysis.
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