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The perils of writing a book about the clitoris, 2 years on
My imagination was caught, now 25 years ago by new work in the form of accurate drawings in the anatomical, biological, medical world. To me this work challenged Freud’s masculinist, phallocentric views of female sexuality. But it also underlined psychoanalytic work throughout the 20th century, largely from women, which searched the unconscious and ‘knew’ that woman’s makeup was more comparable to man’s, just hidden inside and adapted evolutionarily for childbirth. My talk will describe how the book was received, inevitably with controversy and mild discomfort, evidenced by 2 previous talks and the one professional review I have seen as yet.
Date:
27 January 2020, 20:15
Venue:
Lecture Room, St John's College Research Centre, 45 St Giles'
Speaker:
Anne Zachary (British Psychoanalytical Society)
Organisers:
Paul Tod (University of Oxford),
Louise Braddock (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
The seminar is open free of charge to members of the University and to mental health professionals but space is limited. To attend it is helpful (but not essential) to e-mail paul.tod@sjc.ox.ac.uk
Editor:
Paul Tod
