Rethinking the Relation between Women and Psychoanalysis: Loss, Mourning, and the Feminine

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Psychoanalysis has traditionally viewed women as objects of desire. Rethinking the Relation between Women and Psychoanalysis uses a contemporary psychoanalytic view to resituate womens place in the narrative as desiring subjects. Contributors to this collection raise questions about the status of woman in culture and society and contend with the theme of loss and mourning that has been associated with women since the beginning of psychoanalysis. The various configurations of mourning, pain, regret, and grieving in diverse societies and cultures are explored in order to reconstruct the role of women in modern psychoanalysis.

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Rethinking the Relation between Women and Psychoanalysis shows the fundamental complexity of the relationship between loss, mourning, grief and femininity. It is an indispensable tool in order to think about womens position nowadays. Editor Hada Soria Escalante and the contributors have made an extraordinary work. It brings variety and innovation to the subject of loss and femininity that is very useful, especially for those who are interested in the clinical practice and the investigation of the contemporary psychoanalysis. -- Adriana Bauab, Freudian School of Buenos Aires
The contributors to Rethinking the Relation between Women and Psychoanalysis have a diverse cultural belonging, and their orientations offer an interesting contrast in the study of mourning. The study of mourning is very important in a global social context that tends to deny the lack or to correct it with merchandises. -- Araceli Coln, Universidad Autnoma de Quertaro

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Hada Soria Escalante is researcher and professor at the University of Monterrey.