Galit Atlas

The Enigma of Desire (eBook, ePUB)

Sex, Longing, and Belonging in Psychoanalysis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis, introduces new perspectives on desire and longing, in and outside of the analytic relationship. This exciting volume explores the known and unknown, ghosts and demons, sexuality and lust. Galit Atlas discusses the subjects of sex and desire and explores what she terms the Enigmatic and the Pragmatic aspects of sexuality, longing, female desire, sexual inhibition, pregnancy, parenthood and creativity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317655268
• Artikelnr.: 43982258

Autorenporträt

Dr. Galit Atlas is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in Manhattan. She is on the faculty of theNew York University Postdoctoral Program for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and NIP and lectures throughout the United States and Internationally. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on gender and sexuality.Dr. Atlas is on the board of directors of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Desires, Mothers, and Others
Part I. Enigmatic and Pragmatic
2. Ella: The Enigma of Desire
3. Ben and Leo: Excited Idiot
4. Danny: Ghosts and the Maternal Skin
Part II. Enigmatic Knowing
5. Celine: Breaks in Unity
6. Tomaz and Ron: The Enigmatic Language
7. Karen: Words and Silences
8. Galit: Sex, Lies, and Psychoanalysis
Part III. The Unknown
9. Sex and the Kitchen: The Mystery of Female Desire
10. Jo, Simone, and Those We Don't Yet Know: Three Pregnancies and
Psychoanalysis
11. Sophie, Sarah: Dreams, Enactments, and the Enigmatic Future
Epilogue: Death
References