Remembering the Phallic Mother
Subtitle: Psychoanalysis, Modernism and the Fetish
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: October 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780801499418
Subjects: Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory; Psychology Of Literature; Women In Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Psychoanalysis and literature; Mothers in literature; Fetishism; Literary Criticism; Psychology; Human Sexuality; Psychoanalysis and feminism
First sentence: The formidable image of the phallic mother-a grown woman with breasts and a penis-occupies the symbolic center of psychoanalytic theories of sex and gender, as well as the center of many of the controversies these theories have provoked.