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Separation and the sense of competence-loss in women

Separation and the sense of competence-loss in women SEPARATION AND THE SENSE OF COMPETENCE-LOSS IN WOMEN Toni Bernay The changing status of women in recent years has brought about a change in the ego ideal to which women aspire. For the new generations of women, the traditional value system of passivity, dependency, and submission are disdained and have become ego dystonic. In their place, assertion, inde- pendence, and achievement have become the acceptable norm) Women have had to reevaluate their ideas and incorporate this new norm into their definition of the competent woman. This reevaluation confirms earlier notions by Thompson, 2,3 Horney, 4,5 and Zilboorg 6 that psychic development occurs with and is influenced by social factors. Cultural permission to succeed is now more available to women. For many women, to be considered competent by their peers means they must emphasize instrumental needs and career over affiliative needs and family life. Women can no longer depend on the secondary gains social permis- sion to withdraw from competition once provided. This new emphasis be- comes problematic because generations of traditional parenting still set the cultural pace of women's developmental climate. Parents continue to per- petuate dominant patriarchal notions. They teach and demonstrate to their daughters that the feminine http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

Separation and the sense of competence-loss in women

Bernay, Toni
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 42 (4): 13 – Dec 1, 1982
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Springer Journals
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1982 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
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0002-9548
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10.1007/BF01252899
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SEPARATION AND THE SENSE OF COMPETENCE-LOSS IN WOMEN Toni Bernay The changing status of women in recent years has brought about a change in the ego ideal to which women aspire. For the new generations of women, the traditional value system of passivity, dependency, and submission are disdained and have become ego dystonic. In their place, assertion, inde- pendence, and achievement have become the acceptable norm) Women have had to reevaluate their ideas and incorporate this new norm into their definition of the competent woman. This reevaluation confirms earlier notions by Thompson, 2,3 Horney, 4,5 and Zilboorg 6 that psychic development occurs with and is influenced by social factors. Cultural permission to succeed is now more available to women. For many women, to be considered competent by their peers means they must emphasize instrumental needs and career over affiliative needs and family life. Women can no longer depend on the secondary gains social permis- sion to withdraw from competition once provided. This new emphasis be- comes problematic because generations of traditional parenting still set the cultural pace of women's developmental climate. Parents continue to per- petuate dominant patriarchal notions. They teach and demonstrate to their daughters that the feminine

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Published: Dec 1, 1982

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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