The Life and Work of Joan Riviere

Freud, Klein and Female Sexuality
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-415-50769-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

The Life and Work of Joan Riviere traces her journey from dressmaker’s apprentice, and member of the Society for Psychical Research, to Sigmund Freud’s patient and his favourite translator. Marion Bower examines Riviere’s important legacy and contribution to the early development of psychoanalysis.

Riviere was also a close friend and colleague of Melanie Klein and wrote her own highly original and influential papers on female sexuality and other topics, in particular Womanliness as a Masquerade (1929). Her position in the British Psychoanalytic Society was unusual as a direct link between Freud and Klein. Her own papers were extraordinarily prescient of developments in psychoanalysis, as well as the social climate of the time. Riviere’s experience as a dressmaker gave her an interest in female sexuality, and she proceeded to significantly challenge Freud’s views. She also defended Klein from ferocious attacks by Melitta Schmideberg (Klein's daughter) and Anna Freud.

The Life and Work of Joan Riviere will appeal to anyone interested in the history of psychoanalysis as well as Riviere’s highly original perspectives involving feminist thought and female sexuality.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bower, Marion

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue Chapter 1: ‘A well born lady’ Chapter 2: Joan Chapter 3: Other worlds Chapter 4: Education Chapter 5: Apprenticeship and marriage Chapter 6: Does housekeeping interest you at all? Chapter 7: ‘Nerves’ Chapter 8: Ernest Jones Chapter 9: Freud Chapter 10: A devilish amount of trouble Chapter 11: I Would be inclined to bet heavily on her Chapter 12: Child wars Chapter 13: Female sexuality and femininity Chapter 14: The road to war Chapter 15: A front-rank analyst Chapter 16: War Chapter 17: After the war Chapter 18: The internal world Epilogue Biography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marion Bower has trained as a teacher, a social worker and an adult psychotherapist. She worked at the Tavistock Clinic for fourteen years and currently teaches at The Kleinian Association of Ireland, the British Psychotherapy Foundation and Making Research Count. She has edited or co-edited four books, including the Routledge titles Addictive States of Mind (2013) and What Social Workers Need to Know (2018).