Contact us
 |
[email protected] |
 |
3275638434 |
 |
 |
| Paper Publishing WeChat |
Useful Links
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Article
Women Between Sacrifice and Masochism: A Psychoanalytic Approach and an Anthropological Questioning
Author(s)
Houria Abdelouahed
Full-Text PDF
XML 1149 Views
DOI:10.17265/2159-5542/2017.10.003
Affiliation(s)
Université Sorbonne Paris-Cité, Paris, France
ABSTRACT
Encounters
with female patients who have experienced trauma linked to the anthropological
conditions of women in certain Arab countries confronts the female analyst with
the phenomenon of “the uncanny” and a mass of affects, which threaten to compromise her
attitude of benevolent neutrality and the structural asymmetry of the
analytical setting. Certain situations may provoke a sense of shock or a
psychic acting-out, thus confronting the analyst with the limits of what can be
analyzed. Using a clinical case as an illustration, the author would like to
reconsider the hypothesis of penis envy and its connection with the
socio-cultural bedrock.
KEYWORDS
masochism, sacrifice, feminity, the Uncanny, penis envy, trauma, anthropology
Cite this paper
References