Thalassa - Pszichoanalízis–Társadalom–Kultúra, 1996 (7. évfolyam, 3. szám)

BESZÁMOLÓK, HÍREK - English summaires

publish — among other articles — Alexandr Etkind’s essay on the real “Wolf Man”, the Russian emigre Sergei Pankeyev, and Wilhelm Reich’s 1929 report on the psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union. DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT ISSUE (1996/3) In our section MAJOR ARTICLES we publish JESSICA BENJAMIN’s article Sameness and difference. Towards an ‘over-inclusive’ theory of gender development. In her article the author outlines how current theorising sees gender difference as developmentally integrated. She suggests as periodisation, delineating four main phases in early gender development: (1) nominal gender identification formation, (2) early differentiation of identifications in the context of separation-individuation, (3) the pre- Oedipal over-inclusive phase, and (4) the Oedipal phase. The premise of this differentiation perspective is virtually the opposite of the position that genital difference is the motor of developing gender and sexual identity. Rather, it takes of from the position according to which gender differentiation, evolving through separation conflicts AND identifications, defines and gives weight to the genital difference, which then assumes great (if not exclusive) symbolic significance in the representation of gender experience and relations. In her essay Woman, nationalism and war: “Make love not war” RADA IVEKOVIC, analyses the relationship between women and nationalism, and argues that women’s identity and relationship to the “Other” is different from that of men, hence even when women participate in nationalism it is in a less violent form. She argues, further, that the structures of nationalism are fundamentally homosocial, and antagonisms toward women of one’s own nation is one of the first forms of attack on the “Other”, and is constitutive of “extreme nationalism”. In the same section we publish as well LÍVIA NEMES’s essay The figure of enfant terrible in psychoanalysis. The author presents a psychoanalytic interpretation of the figure of the enfant terrible as personified in certain figures of the history of psychoanalytic movement as well as in literary and mythological characters. She argues that the enfant terrible is a contradictory kind of personality that might assume rather different individual characters, but, essentially, uses infantilism as disguise, and challenges social authority. By interpreting this figure, the author points out the dynamics of a social psychological phenomenon as well.

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