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In these pages ... The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 54, No. 2, 1994 In this issue of the Journal--for which I am pleased to serve as Guest Editor--we gather around a collection of papers written by women from a variety of backgrounds who share an interest in psychoanalysis and its in- terface with the internal landscapes of women. Leading off, I consider in my own contribution to this collection the etiology and functioning of family legends that are passed through genera- tions by the processes of projective identification or intersubjective com- munication. I want to understand how female subjectivity is engendered. I propose that gender concepts are fashioned into individual and group signs that start at the level of unconscious legends and fantasies. It is my idea that the legends transmit urgent messages to the subject's inner world. For women, these legends carry the invariant fantasies of sexual difference and its resolution through sacrifice. The impact on woman's knowledge of her female self is explored theoretically and through the discussion of a young woman's relationship to her body and such related themes as her flawed ground of being, pregnancy, and sexual difference. Similarly, storymaking is the critical factor in Harriet Kimble Wrye's http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
1994 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1007/BF02821851
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Abstract

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 54, No. 2, 1994 In this issue of the Journal--for which I am pleased to serve as Guest Editor--we gather around a collection of papers written by women from a variety of backgrounds who share an interest in psychoanalysis and its in- terface with the internal landscapes of women. Leading off, I consider in my own contribution to this collection the etiology and functioning of family legends that are passed through genera- tions by the processes of projective identification or intersubjective com- munication. I want to understand how female subjectivity is engendered. I propose that gender concepts are fashioned into individual and group signs that start at the level of unconscious legends and fantasies. It is my idea that the legends transmit urgent messages to the subject's inner world. For women, these legends carry the invariant fantasies of sexual difference and its resolution through sacrifice. The impact on woman's knowledge of her female self is explored theoretically and through the discussion of a young woman's relationship to her body and such related themes as her flawed ground of being, pregnancy, and sexual difference. Similarly, storymaking is the critical factor in Harriet Kimble Wrye's

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The American Journal of PsychoanalysisSpringer Journals

Published: Jun 1, 1994

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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