Main description:

In the long and passionate debate within psychoanalysis over the theory of female sexuality, which has spanned more than a century and reached no definitive conclusion, a pattern of non-acceptance of ideas, their disappearance and then re-emergence later is a continually repeating one. The Anatomy of the Clitoris shows how this happens, using a comprehensive guide to the literature. The time is right culturally to explore this further usingclinical material as illustration. The central aim of this book is to introduce recent innovative redrawing of female anatomy appearing in the scientific literature to psychoanalysis.

Contents:

Introduction

1 Womankind through history

2 The anatomy of the clitoris: a re - interpretation

3 The historical development of the psychoanalytic theory of female sexuality (1897 - 2000)

4 The anatomy of the clitoris: a psychic representation

The implications of the re - interpretation of the anatomy of the clitoris for clinical practice and psychoanalytic theory:

5 Bisexuality: the universal phenomenon

6 Motherhood: the fundamental aim

7 Femininity: the key to the box

8 Aggression: and the female form

9 Recent developments in the literature

Afterthoughts