BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR! THE SURRENDER OF GENDER |
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| Authors: | ANN D'ERCOLE |
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| Affiliation: | Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology and a Supervisor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and is a Distinguished Visiting Faculty member at William Alanson White Institute, New York. |
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| Abstract: | Close examination of Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905a) reveals an ambiguity in Freud's language as he simultaneously tries to escape 19th‐century psychiatric paradigms concerning sexuality and perversion while also retaining a normative approach to adult sexuality that created new categories of pathology. The result is an ambivalent legacy that has both hampered and helped contemporary clinicians as they deal with a diverse array of presentations of gender and sexual orientation in today's world. |
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| Keywords: | Sexuality gender cultural influences social change sexual aberrations perversion libido homosexuality neurosis repression seduction normativity bisexualism |
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