ABSTRACT

First published in 1992. A collection of case studies and essays which present new Freudian and post- Freudian psychoanalytic views on how women develop. Contributors look at women who had cold, dominant mothers and at women who had suffocating, intrusive mothers, at why some women become homosexuals and more.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

chapter |16 pages

Females in Bondage

The Early Role of Mother and Father in the Woman’s Tie to Abusive Men

chapter |19 pages

The Encapsulated Maternal Introject

In the Service of Survival

chapter |26 pages

Daddy’s Girl

An Interactional Perspective on the Transference of Defense in the Psychoanalysis of a Case of Father-Daughter Incest

chapter |11 pages

Aspects of Homosexuality

chapter |20 pages

The Forbidden Room

A Pair of Fairy Tales as Developmental Metaphor