Men, Women, Passion and Power by Marie Maguire

Men, Women, Passion and Power by Marie Maguire

Psychoanalytic theory has often found it difficult to come to terms with issues of power within gender relations. Both theory and clinical practice have tended to replicate the cultural idealization of men and the denigration of women, splitting masculinity and femininity between the sexes in a way which depletes both. In Men, Women, Passion and Power, Marie Maguire argues that it is only when psychoanalysis integrates the male and female in its theorizing that the possibility of a more balanced and fluid psychological relation between the sexes will emerge. Making detailed use of case material, she introduces the reader to the contemporary debates about sexuality and explores them with sensitivity from a feminist viewpoint. Looking at such topics as false memories of sexual abuse, perverse sexuality, homosexuality, pornography and bulimia, she shows how current thinking is trammelled by sexist, homophobic and culturally biased assumptions about gender identity and sexual orientation. She concludes that only when a feminist perspective has been truly integrated into theory will the psychoanalytic project realize its full radical potential.

'Marie Maguire brings a fresh and feminist perspective to the way psychoanalysis and its theoreticians have handled the basic issues of 'Men, Women, Passion and Power'' - Self and Society

Marie Maguire is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in London. She is a member of the Guild of Psychotherapists Training Committee and teaches on psychotherapy training courses. She is the co-editor of Living with the Sphinx.

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ISBN 13	9780415074339
ISBN 10	0415074339
Title	Men, Women, Passion and Power
Author	Marie Maguire
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	1995-05-18
Number of pages	254
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