On the Sense of Absence
A Perspective on Womanly Issues
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9232947 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lila J Kalinich (300 Central Park West, 1K, New York, NY, 10024, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 206-228 |
| Publication date | 1993-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Psychoanalytic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2828 • E-ISSN: 2167-4086 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21674086.1993.11927375 |
| PMID | 8502727 |
| OpenAlex | W2415698651 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 12 |
Many women express complaints about their mental capacities which are discordant with objective indicators of superior intelligence and functioning. They find their memories unreliable, for example, despite intense efforts to retain facts or ideas. Using clinical material, the author attempts to elucidate how psychic representation of the vagina can contribute to a sense of mental defectiveness, experienced by certain women as peculiarly feminine. The role of such a psychic representation tends to go unrecognized, given that the female genital is usually conceptualized as an "absence" rather than a presence in its own right
Cognition · Mental representation · Perspective (graphical) · Psychiatry · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Representation (politics) · Computer Science · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Aloneness in the Countertransference
The Phallic Astration Complex and Primary Femininity
Sex and Shame
Body Ego and the Preoedipal Roots of Feminine Gender Identity
Primary Femininity
Looking at bodies
“Nothing is Missing… Yet”
Early Genital Activity and the Castration Complex
The Nature of Reality, the Meaning of Nothing, with an Addendum on Concentration
On Nothing and Nobody with an Addendum on William Hogarth
The Self as Fantasy
Vaginal Awareness in the Infancy and Childhood of Grils
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Unconscious Fantasy and Disturbances of Conscious Experience
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2020 (27) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |