Masculinity and femininity today / edited by Ester Palerm Marí and Frances Thomson-Salo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Evolving perspectives on masculinity and its discontents: reworking the internal phallic and genital positions; CHAPTER TWO Discussion of "Evolving perspectives on masculinity and its discontents: reworking the internal phallic and genital positions"; CHAPTER THREE The hour of the stranger; CHAPTER FOUR Discussion of "The hour of the stranger"; CHAPTER FIVE The abyss of intimacy; CHAPTER SIX Lack of discrimination as a defence mechanism; CHAPTER SEVEN Listening to psychical bisexuality in analysis.

CHAPTER EIGHT Masculinity and the analytic relationship-transforming masculinity in the course of the analysisCHAPTER NINE Intersubjective context of gender and sexuality; CHAPTER TEN Identity: a constellation of emotional experience and metaphors in childhood; CHAPTER ELEVEN Furious with love-some reflections on the sexuality of a little girl; INDEX.

Ester Palerm and Frances Thomson Salo gather a wide range of psychoanalytic writing about femininity and masculinity from British, European, and North and South American perspectives, to integrate theoretical and clinical points sometimes quite controversially in contributions that are cutting edge. The authors address what is currently understood by 'masculine' and 'feminine' in psychoanalytic terms, and how these issues manifest in the body, gender, sex, sexuality and the life-cycle, and cover aspects both productive and generative, constricted and defended. Beginning with an overview of ps.

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