The Gender Conundrum
Subtitle: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Masculinity and Femininity (New Library of Psychoanalysis, No 18)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: July 28, 1993
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780415091640
First sentence: The Oedipus complex formed the kernel of Freud's understanding of human sexuality, and he comments: 'None of the findings of psychoanalytic research has provoked such embittered denials, such fierce opposition - or such amusing contortions - on the part of critics as this indication of the childhood impulses towards incest which persist in the unconscious'.