Ruth F Lax
Biographic Data
| ID | 5211374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth F Lax |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth F |
| FAMILY NAME | Lax |
| SIGNATURE | LAX R F |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Becoming Really Old: The Indignities
This essay deals with an unpopular topic: the indignities that increasingly plague people as they grow older and eventually become really old. Individual differences and the causes for same are indicated, as well as the variety of individual reactions. A brief clinical vignette is presented, in addition to a more extended one describing a woman who was in analysis for six years during her fifties and sixties, and who returned to treatment twenty …
Father's seduction of daughter entices her into the Oedipal phase: Mother's role in the formation of the girl's superego
The Daughter's sEduction By Her Father Is Her Enticement Into the Oedipal Phase
Ethics of Psychoanalysis: Confidentiality
(2002). Ethics of psychoanalysis: Confidentiality. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 457-462
Freud's views and the changing perspective on femaleness and femininity: What my female analysands taught me.
In this article, I critically examine Freud's views on female psychosexual development and femininity. The effect of Freud's patriarchal bias on the manner in which his followers analyzed women and the goals they set for the analysis of women are shown via vignettes. Throughout the late 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, feminism forced a reexamination of previously accepted Freudian postulates from without and within the psychoanalytic establishment. Thus…
Freud's views and the changing perspective on femaleness and femininity: What my female analysands taught me
Freud's views and the changing perspective on femaleness and femininity: What my female analysands taught me
Aspects of Primary and Secondary Genital Feelings and Anxieties in Girls During the Preoedipal and Early Oedipal Phases
The author examines the development of the girl's psychosexual feminine self-image during the preoedipal and early oedipal phases, as well as the accompanying primary and secondary genital feelings and anxieties. The connection between the little girl's discovery and pleasure in self-exploration and masturbation and related anxieties about being "closed-up" is discussed. The nature of the corresponding object relationships is elucidated, especial…
A Variation on Freud's Theme in “A Child is Being Beaten”—Mother's Role: Some Implications for Superego Development in Women
Clinical material is presented leading to a discussion of beating fantasies which varies from Freud's model. Analysis shows that the fantasied role girls assign to mother as the punisher in the oedipal drama is equivalent to the fantasied role boys ascribe to father as castrator. For both sexes, castration anxiety spurs the internalization of parental prohibitions, the repression of oedipal wishes, and the subsequent structuralization of the supe…
Infantile Deprivation and Arrested Ego Development
(1958). Infantile Deprivation and Arrested Ego Development. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 501-517
Aspects of Primary and Secondary Genital Feelings and Anxieties in Girls During the Preoedipal and Early Oedipal Phases
The author examines the development of the girl's psychosexual feminine self-image during the preoedipal and early oedipal phases, as well as the accompanying primary and secondary genital feelings and anxieties. The connection between the little girl's discovery and pleasure in self-exploration and masturbation and related anxieties about being "closed-up" is discussed. The nature of the corresponding object relationships is elucidated, especial…
Becoming Really Old: The Indignities
This essay deals with an unpopular topic: the indignities that increasingly plague people as they grow older and eventually become really old. Individual differences and the causes for same are indicated, as well as the variety of individual reactions. A brief clinical vignette is presented, in addition to a more extended one describing a woman who was in analysis for six years during her fifties and sixties, and who returned to treatment twenty …
A Variation on Freud's Theme in “A Child is Being Beaten”—Mother's Role: Some Implications for Superego Development in Women
Clinical material is presented leading to a discussion of beating fantasies which varies from Freud's model. Analysis shows that the fantasied role girls assign to mother as the punisher in the oedipal drama is equivalent to the fantasied role boys ascribe to father as castrator. For both sexes, castration anxiety spurs the internalization of parental prohibitions, the repression of oedipal wishes, and the subsequent structuralization of the supe…
The Daughter's sEduction By Her Father Is Her Enticement Into the Oedipal Phase
Ethics of Psychoanalysis: Confidentiality
(2002). Ethics of psychoanalysis: Confidentiality. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 457-462
Infantile Deprivation and Arrested Ego Development
(1958). Infantile Deprivation and Arrested Ego Development. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 501-517
A Variation on Freud's Theme in “A Child is Being Beaten”—Mother's Role: Some Implications for Superego Development in Women
Clinical material is presented leading to a discussion of beating fantasies which varies from Freud's model. Analysis shows that the fantasied role girls assign to mother as the punisher in the oedipal drama is equivalent to the fantasied role boys ascribe to father as castrator. For both sexes, castration anxiety spurs the internalization of parental prohibitions, the repression of oedipal wishes, and the subsequent structuralization of the supe…
Aspects of Primary and Secondary Genital Feelings and Anxieties in Girls During the Preoedipal and Early Oedipal Phases
The author examines the development of the girl's psychosexual feminine self-image during the preoedipal and early oedipal phases, as well as the accompanying primary and secondary genital feelings and anxieties. The connection between the little girl's discovery and pleasure in self-exploration and masturbation and related anxieties about being "closed-up" is discussed. The nature of the corresponding object relationships is elucidated, especial…
Freud's views and the changing perspective on femaleness and femininity: What my female analysands taught me.
In this article, I critically examine Freud's views on female psychosexual development and femininity. The effect of Freud's patriarchal bias on the manner in which his followers analyzed women and the goals they set for the analysis of women are shown via vignettes. Throughout the late 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, feminism forced a reexamination of previously accepted Freudian postulates from without and within the psychoanalytic establishment. Thus…
Freud's views and the changing perspective on femaleness and femininity: What my female analysands taught me
Freud's views and the changing perspective on femaleness and femininity: What my female analysands taught me
Ethics of Psychoanalysis: Confidentiality
(2002). Ethics of psychoanalysis: Confidentiality. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 457-462
The Daughter's sEduction By Her Father Is Her Enticement Into the Oedipal Phase
Father's seduction of daughter entices her into the Oedipal phase: Mother's role in the formation of the girl's superego
Becoming Really Old: The Indignities
This essay deals with an unpopular topic: the indignities that increasingly plague people as they grow older and eventually become really old. Individual differences and the causes for same are indicated, as well as the variety of individual reactions. A brief clinical vignette is presented, in addition to a more extended one describing a woman who was in analysis for six years during her fifties and sixties, and who returned to treatment twenty …
Psychoanalysis (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (5 works) · Id, ego and super-ego (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Child Therapy and Development (3 works) · Femininity (3 works) · Girl (3 works)