Sexuality and Mind

Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel was Vice President of the International Psychoanalytic Association, and wrote extensively on psychoanalytic topics. Her works, in English translation, include 'Creativity and Perversion', 'The Ego Ideal' and 'Freud or Reich?'. She has also edited and contributed to 'Female Sexuality: New Psychoanalytic Views'.

• Foreword -- Introduction -- Freud and Female Sexuality: The Consideration of Some Blind Spots in the Exploration of the “Dark Continent” -- The Femininity of the Analyst in Professional Practice -- Submissive Daughters: Hypotheses on Primary Passivity and its Effects on Thought Mechanisms -- On Transference Love in the Male: A “Special Case” -- The Archaic Matrix of the Oedipus Complex -- The Archaic Matrix of the Oedipus Complex in Utopia -- “The Green Theater”: An Attempt at Interpretation of Group Manifestations of Unconscious Guilt -- The Paradox of the Freudian Method: From the Abolishment of Otherness to the Universal Law

'Madame Chasseguet-Smirgel delineates, with remarkable insight, the psychodynamic bases of common clinical situations and relates them persuasively to urgent issues of social and cultural life, historical and current. This is 'pure gold' of psychoanalysis.'- Mortimer Ostow, M.D., Attending psychiatrist, Montefiore Medical Centre