Becoming and Being a Woman

by Lax, Ruth F.

• ISBN13: 9780765700506
• ISBN10: 0765700506
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-08-01
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix	(2)
Introduction	xi
1. Freud's Views and the Changing Perspective on Femaleness and Femininity: What My Female Analysands Taught Me	1	(18)
2. The Effect of the Analyst's Pregnancy on the Patient: Transference and Countertransference Manifestations Evoked by the Analyst's Pregnancy	19	(28)
3. The Birth of an Impaired Child; Aspects of Mother-Child Interaction; Mother's Narcissistic Trauma	47	(16)
4. The Rotten Core: Legacy of Mother's Depression	63	(22)
5. Girls' Primary and Secondary Genital Feelings and Anxieties	85	(30)
Part I: Girls' Fears of Genital Mutilation and of Being Closed Up	85	(15)
Part II: Roots of Girls' Penis Envy in the Negative Oedipal Phase	100	(15)
6. "A Child Is Being Beaten": Mother's Role in the Formation of a Woman's Superego	115	(18)
7. An Imaginary Brother: Conflicting Pathways to Womanhood Contribute to Splits in the Ego Ideal	133	(20)
8. Masochism in Women: The Role of Internalization and Ego Psychological Considerations	153	(32)
9. The Menopausal Phase: Crisis, Danger, Opportunity	185	(26)
10. Growing Older; Getting Old; Psychic Reality in Aging	211	(8)
11. In Conclusion	219	(8)
References	227	(20)
Credits	247	(2)
Index	249