Sigmund Freud

In a section called The Dawn of Phallocentrism, HC presents block quotes from Freud and Joyce , formatted to look much like an interview with a third character she calls Jewoman. Freud and Joyce...

Jewoman again discusses myth, particularly that of Orestes, Agamemnon's son, who kills his mother Clytemnestra. Upon Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War (as related in drama by Æschylus and others), Clytemnestra murdered him because, before...

This essay is a manifesto calling women to write. Echoing parts of La Jeune née and highly polemical, it is an answer to Freud 's use of the legend of Perseus and the Medusa (a...

In the opening scene of Darkness and Day, two old friends discuss the approaching death of one of them. The plot is a version of the Oedipus story: Bridget Lovat kills her mother and...

With essays under such titles as Ideal Homes, Kissing, Naughty but Nice: Food Pornography, and Men's Bodies, Female Desire interrogates the matter-of-fact details and events of everyday life, revealing the complex...

Children are very important in RC 's adult novels. She repeatedly traces a group of characters, sometimes but not always all within the same family, from childhood to maturity or old age. Another pattern is...

Imagery of postpartum fluidity, particularly lactation, characterizes the lovers' growing passion and the descriptions of female sexual desire and orgasm. The narrative alternates between a schizoid third-person dialogue and first-person narration as Jane attempts...

The play takes a biographical approach, as Woolf , from the vantage point of imminent death, looks back over her past life. The only two other characters are Vita Sackville-West and Sigmund Freud ; Duffy...

MD published a novel, Love Child, which she has called a psychological statement, an elaboration of the Freud ian theory of primal relationships with a subtext from classical mythology.

MD published The Erotic World of Faery: a Freud ian study of the supernatural in English literature from Anglo-Saxon elves to science fiction, as she later called it.

As a student she discovered and spent much of her time in two worlds which deeply influenced her writing: the theatre and psychoanalysis. She involved herself in student drama (already writing for the theatre) and...

Four epigraphs include one each from Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous .AF 's introduction begins with the ancient Egyptians, who, she says, first attributed women's vagaries to a womb wandering out of its...

A wide spread of social institutions and systems of knowledge interests EF : she looks at the force of gendered attitudes in theology, commerce, education, psychology and philosophy. Though she intended to write of women...

During her teenage years her legal guardians were a New York woman and her psychiatrist husband who had assisted and been analyzed by Sigmund Freud .

The essay argues that traditional religions are morbid and male-oriented, formulated by hunters and fighters and thus erected upon the fear of death and hope for afterlife. It elaborates on themes developed in Women...