El Saffar, Ruth Anthony

Rapture encaged; the suppression of the feminine in Western culture - London/New York Routledge c1994 - xii, 158p

Freud, Sigmund. 1856-1939 : p41-44; see also index.. Lacan, Jacques. 1901-1981 : p44-45; see also index.. Patriarchy : Female individuation in patriarchal culture; Patriarchal structures and the problem of the female self, p13-56.. Couvade : Giving birth - a feminine`power', p141.. Unconscious : p35-56.. Gender Identity : p35-56.

'...a study in female individuation. Through an analysis of the seventeenth-century visionary nun Isabel de la Cruz, Ruth Anthony El Saffar examines the process of individuation in women, and questions whether, in seeking to achieve this Jungian ideal, women are being asked instead to adapt to images of the feminine that are constructed by patriarchal culture.'

Hardcover

0-415-11083-1

93-47680


Psychotherapy--Case studies
Women--Psychology--Case Studies
Animus (Psychoanalysis)
Cruz, Isabela de la, active 17th century
Freud, Sigmund. 1856-1939
Lacan, Jacques. 1901-1981
Patriarchy
Women and Religion--Christianity
Mysticism, Christian
Visions
Mysticism--Spain
Couvade
Femininity of God
Jungian psychology--Religious aspects--Christianity
Jungian psychology
Women--Psychology
Unconscious
Gender
Identity (Psychology)

BF175.5.I53 E4 1994