Prologue: The Misogyny of Everyday Life.
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| Title: | Prologue: The Misogyny of Everyday Life. |
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| Authors: | Yonack, Lyn (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Psychoanalytic Inquiry. Oct2022, Vol. 42 Issue 7, p519-522. 4p. |
| Subjects: | Misogyny, Everyday life, Roe v. Wade, Male gaze, Representation (Psychoanalysis) |
| Abstract: | Misogyny becomes the dark underbelly - a reaction formation of sorts, holding the otherwise powerful Mother captive in a less-than-powerful (subordinated) place, in and by a world that is felt to be inhospitable and, often, menacing and dangerous.[3] Our authors offer here a number of ways of thinking about the intractable problem of misogyny. According to Dr. Oppenheim, misogyny reveals "not only the pathological origin of all prejudice and discrimination - the anxiety before the uncanny, before ambiguity and the ill-defined - but the reward to be reaped in circles of the like-minded: approval and relief from dread". "In conformity with its peculiar nature, psycho-analysis does not try to describe what a woman is - that would be a task it could scarcely perform - but sets about enquiring how she comes into being.". [Extracted from the article] |
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| Abstract: | Misogyny becomes the dark underbelly - a reaction formation of sorts, holding the otherwise powerful Mother captive in a less-than-powerful (subordinated) place, in and by a world that is felt to be inhospitable and, often, menacing and dangerous.[3] Our authors offer here a number of ways of thinking about the intractable problem of misogyny. According to Dr. Oppenheim, misogyny reveals "not only the pathological origin of all prejudice and discrimination - the anxiety before the uncanny, before ambiguity and the ill-defined - but the reward to be reaped in circles of the like-minded: approval and relief from dread". "In conformity with its peculiar nature, psycho-analysis does not try to describe what a woman is - that would be a task it could scarcely perform - but sets about enquiring how she comes into being.". [Extracted from the article] |
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| ISSN: | 07351690 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/07351690.2022.2121139 |
