Oedipus in Brooklyn
Reading Freud on Women, Watching Lena Dunham’s Girls
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9233488 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Buchberg (Training and Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and a Personal and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 121-150 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Psychoanalytic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2828 • E-ISSN: 2167-4086 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/j.2167-4086.2014.00079.x |
| PMID | 24470367 |
| OpenAlex | W1972757795 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
Through an examination of Freud's Lecture 33, "Femininity" (1933), and "Mourning and Melancholia" (1917), the author proposes a reading of Freud's description of the girl becoming a woman. Female development is retold as a melancholic narrative-one in which the girl's entrance into the positive Oedipus is founded on unconscious grievance and unmourned loss of the early relationship with her mother. Castration and penis envy are reconceived as melancholic markers-the manifest content of the subjectivity of refusal, loss, and imagined repair of the early maternal relationship. Lena Dunham's HBO television series Girls is analyzed as an illustration of these theoretical understandings
Art · Developmental psychology · Femininity · Girl · Literature · Melancholia · Narrative · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Reading (process) · Subjectivity · Unconscious mind · American Jewish Fiction Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Themes in Literature Analysis
The Reproduction of Mothering
Deconstructing difference
Melancholy gender—refused identification
Toward Less Fixed Internal Transformations of Gender Commentary on
Primary Femininity, Bisexuality, and the Female Ego Ideal
The Sense of Femaleness
The Phallic Astration Complex and Primary Femininity
Integrating Male and Female Elements in a Woman's gEnder Identity
Primary Femininity
The Femininization of the Female Oedipal Complex, Part I
A Developmental Line of Gender Identity, Gender Role, and Choice of Love Object
Melancholy Femininity and Obsessive-Compulsive Masculinity
Female Sexuality
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |