![]() ![]() “ convincing analysis leads us to wonder whether it is any longer useful to think in terms of a normative boy and girl, man and woman, father and mother, and heterosexual and homosexual.” -Sally Moskowitz ![]() “Raises challenging questions but makes no easy answers.” - Psychoanalytic Quarterly Praise for Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities ![]() Such a methodology entails a plurality of femininities and masculinities and enables us to understand a variety of sexualities. By returning to Freud and interpreting psychoanalysis through clinical eyes, Chodorow contends that psychoanalysis must consider individual specificity and personal, cultural, and social factors. Further, she demonstrates the paucity of psychoanalytic understanding of heterosexuality and the problematic polarizing of normal and abnormal sexualities. ![]() Drawing from her own clinical experience, the work of Freud, and a close reading of psychoanalytic texts, Chodorow argues that psychoanalysis has yet to disentangle male dominance from heterosexuality. Chodorow takes her fellow psychoanalysts to task for their monolithic and pathologizing accounts of deviant gender and sexuality. The author of The Reproduction of Mothering examines the problems with how psychoanalysis views sexuality and gender. ![]()
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