BEDROCK AND BEYOND: AN EXAMINATION OF THE CLINICAL UTILITY OF CONTEMPORARY THEORIES OF FEMALE PSYCHOLOGY
BEDROCK AND BEYOND: AN EXAMINATION OF THE CLINICAL UTILITY OF CONTEMPORARY THEORIES OF FEMALE PSYCHOLOGY
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基础及其他:当代女性心理学理论的临床实用性检验
DOI:
10.1177/000306519404200206
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发表时间:
1994
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
P. Tyson
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作者:
P. Tyson
Libido theory and the idea of an innate matrix of bisexuality are an inadequate basis on which to understand female psychology. Rather, it is the mutual influence of sexuality, aggression, object relations, and a superego that inherits the object-related conflicts of early childhood, intertwined as these are with gender issues, that determine the way a woman experiences herself A woman can have a basically confident, narcissistically valued sense of femaleness and at the same time be troubled by intense feelings of inadequacy and deprivation. Instead of arbitrarily attributing these feelings to penis envy and a sense of castration, based on the idea of bisexuality as bedrock, this paper suggests that we consider primary femininity as bedrock, but that the superego, as heir to unresolved preoedipal and oedipal object-related conflicts, functions to maintain these painful emotions. Clinical material illustrates the utility of these ideas.