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Emanuela Quagliata, Lisa Baraitser - Violence and the Feminine, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Violence and the Feminine

Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Av Emanuela Quagliata, Lisa Baraitser

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In this volume, psychoanalysts, academics and activists explore how psychoanalytic theory illuminates the relationship between violence and the feminine, bringing together international perspectives to examine social structures of oppression, violence and hatred towards women, and the ever-changing landscape of gender and sexuality. Drawing on feminist and postcolonial psychoanalytic revisions of Freud's theories, the book offers new reflections on misogyny, migration, war, colonial trauma, political oppression, obstetric violence, transphobia, racism and murder. Contributors revisit and revise psychoanalytic theories of femininity and its relation to aggression, creating a vital dialogue between psychoanalysis and related disciplines including social theory, politics and philosophy. Through clinical and theoretical analyses, the book demonstrates how psychoanalytic theories of femininity and the intersectional ideas developed around them can contribute to understanding new and escalating forms of violence against women and the resources required to counter it. Violence and the Feminine is essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, social workers and counsellors, both qualified and in training. It will also appeal to academics and students with interests in psychoanalytic approaches to gender and sexuality, violence against women, and feminist, queer and trans theory, as well as those working in political, community and care spaces.
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Emanuela Quagliata is a training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society (IPA), guest member of the British Psychoanalytical Society (IPA) and Child Adolescent and Family Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist (ACP) based in Rome, Italy. She is Chair of the EPF Committee 'Violence and the Feminine' and served as Chair for the European Region of the IPA Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP) from 2021 to 2025. She is the editor of Adolescents in Crisis: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Challenges of Adolescence (2025)Lisa Baraitser is Professor of Psychosocial Theory at Birkbeck, University of London, and a psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society (IPA) in London, UK. She has written widely on psychoanalytic and feminist theory, motherhood and the ethics of care, social reproduction, and the temporalities of maintenance, repetition and repair in relation to foreclosed futures. She is the author of Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption (2009) which was joint winner of the Feminist and Women's Studies Association Book Prize.

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"Violence and the Feminine: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives is a timely and compelling collection that confronts the complex entanglements of violence, gender, embodiment, and psychic life. Bringing together diverse contemporary voices, it challenges familiar assumptions about femininity as merely passive or victimized and opens new ways of thinking about aggression, vulnerability, desire, and power. The result is a rigorous, unsettling, and deeply illuminating volume – essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, scholars, and anyone seeking to understand how violence is lived, represented, and transformed."Ronald Doctor, Fellow and Training Analyst, British Psychoanalytical Society; Chair, IPA Psychoanalysis and Law Committee; Honorary Secretary of the EPF Committee on Violence and the Feminine; and Visiting Lecturer, University College London, London, UK"This brave book benefits practitioners and lay readers alike. It sets out to examine that elusive concept – ‘the feminine’ – by disclosing ‘collective imaginaries’ underpinning its psychic ‘unbearability’ and sociocultural devaluation. Questioning conventional thinking, the distinguished contributors explore a spectrum of gendered and racialised violence from different psychoanalytic perspectives, highlighting both challenges and potentialities for prolonged therapeutic work with perpetrators, and survivors. Topics range from subtle manifestations of misogyny in discourse, to sociopolitical discrimination, and enactments by women of internalised violence. Triumphalism over the maternal imago recurs across various spheres – systematised institutional control over reproduction, female sexuality and maternity; domestic violence; transphobia, and extreme violations (femicide, wartime rape, human trafficking and colonial domination). In sum this volume captures both the complexity of the themes and the different levels – psychic, clinical, social and political – through which the authors approach violence and the feminine."Professor Joan Raphael-Leff, PhD (Retired), Fellow, British Psychoanalytical Society and Member IPA, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, UCL, London, UK"This fascinating collection comes from a rich mix of clinicians and wider theorists. They together describe the pervasiveness - from the unconscious to culture - of revulsion, denigration and attack towards the feminine.At first, reading the themes, a relentless drumbeat of trauma made me want to see it as exaggerated, ‘hysterical’. Then came an unshakable sense of 'obviously' – here is the base reality every girl and woman has to live in. As a privileged woman, I was startled to recognise that I had had direct experience of many of the misogynies described, and that those female subjugations had felt normal. It is very timely to see this international study of violence against the feminine using a psychoanalytic lens to explore the strange and traumatic within the ‘normal’."Mary Hepworth, PhD (formerly Mary Target), Psychoanalyst and Clinical Psychologist, and Emeritus Professor of Psychoanalysis at UCL, London, UK

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