Freudian Analysts/Feminist Issues
Freudian Analysts/Feminist Issues by Judith M. Hughes, published by Yale University Press on February 8, 1999, is a scholarly exploration of gender identity through the lens of psychoanalysis. This 232-page book presents a unique argument for understanding gender identity as potentially multiple, drawing on the historical context of psychoanalytic theory and its evolution over time.
In this work, Hughes examines the contributions of key figures in psychoanalysis, including Helene Deutsch, Karen Horney, and Melanie Klein, as well as contemporary theorists like Carol Gilligan and Nancy Chodorow. Each conceptual lineage is analyzed to reveal an evolutionary narrative regarding gender identity, with discussions on themes such as retrogression, epigenesis, and sexual selection. This edition provides a comprehensive look at the intersection of psychoanalysis and feminism, making it a significant addition to the discourse on gender studies.
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In this important book Judith M. Hughes makes a highly original case for conceptualizing gender identity as potentially multiple. She does so by situating her argument within the history of psychoanalysis.
Hughes traces a series of conceptual lineages, each descending from Freud. In the study Helene Deutsch, Karen Horney, and Melanie Klein occupy prominent places. So too do Erik H. Erikson and Robert J. Stoller. Among contemporary theorists Carol Gilligan and Nancy Chodorow are included in Hughes’s roster.
In each lineage Hughes discerns an evolutionary narrative: Deutsch tells a story of retrogression; Erikson names his epigenesis, and Gilligan continues in that vein; Horney’s discussion recalls sexual selection; Stoller’s and Chodorow’s theorizing brings artificial selection to mind; and finally in Klein’s work Hughes sees a story of natural selection and adds to it her own notion of multiple gender identities.
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