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Galit Atlas - The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing, and Belonging in Psychoanalysis - 9781138789609 - V9781138789609
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The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing, and Belonging in Psychoanalysis

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The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis, introduces new perspectives on desire and longing, in and outside of the analytic relationship. This exciting volume explores the known and unknown, ghosts and demons, sexuality and lust. Galit Atlas discusses the subjects of sex and desire and explores what she terms the Enigmatic and the Pragmatic aspects of sexuality, longing, female desire, sexual inhibition, pregnancy, parenthood and creativity. The author focuses on the levels of communication that take place in the most intimate settings: between mothers and ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Relational Perspectives Book Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138789609
SKU
V9781138789609
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About Galit Atlas
Dr. Galit Atlas is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in Manhattan. She is on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Program for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and NIP and lectures throughout the United States and Internationally. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on gender and sexuality. Dr. Atlas is on the ... Read more

Reviews for The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing, and Belonging in Psychoanalysis
Clinically astute and theoretically provocative, The Enigma of Desire recaptures the realm of sexuality for relational psychoanalysis. Atlas offers an illuminating, original construction of sexuality as located in the tension between enigmatic and pragmatic dimensions, deftly putting into play the binaries of known and unknown, seen and unseen, internal and external as well as oedipal and pre-oedipal experiences of the ... Read more

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