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Sexual Difference
Sexual Difference: Masculinity and Psychoanalysis offers a critical exploration
of issues of gender in psychoanalysis. It acknowledges and unpacks the
complexity of theory and writing in this area, particularly the way sexual
difference can only be thought about from a gendered position. As the book
is written by a male academic and psychologist, its orientation is towards
the way masculinity is expressed in theory and practice, and how this
influences the experience and construction of both masculinity and
femininity in contemporary culture. In addition, Stephen Frosh describes
how psychoanalysis itself can be seen as a system heavily imbued with
gender assumptions, and how the form and content of its theories express
many of the dilemmas of sexual difference.
Sexual Difference is written in a clear, accessible and also self-reflexive
style. It introduces major strands of psychoanalytic theory on sexual
difference, particularly those associated with the Kleinian and Lacanian
traditions, and includes a detailed exploration of the gender assumptions
apparent in some of Freud’s work. As well as providing a critical analysis
of these psychoanalytical positions, the book also employs them to throw
light on such crucial issues for gender politics as sexual violence, language
and psychotherapy.
Stephen Frosh is a practising clinical psychologist and an academic
psychologist and writer. He has worked for many years in the areas of
psychoanalysis, culture and gender, and also with children who have been
sexually abused.
Sexual Difference
Masculinity and Psychoanalysis
Stephen Frosh





London and New York
First published 1994
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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© 1994 Stephen Frosh
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