Some theoretical and technical aspects of gender and social reality in clinical psychoanalysis.
Since the social order embodies and authorizes ideals of femininity and masculinity, a psychoanalysis of gender entails decisions as to how social reality figures in the clinical situation. This paper approaches social reality as part of a general problem of neurosis, in which all versions of normality are analyzed as aspects of resistance. What such an approach emphasizes about social ideals is their role in a psychopathology of conformity, which constitutes a stage in the development of neurosis.
Kaplan
D M
DM
New York University.
D000328:Adult; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D005619:Freudian Theory; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D012945:Social Values