Femininity and kleinian systematization: the mother’s body as the stage of psychic genesis

Authors

  • Marcos Leandro Klipan Universidade Estadual de Maringá

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v23i3p483-502

Keywords:

Psychoanalysis, Melanie Klein, femininity

Abstract

This study aims at investigating the theme referred to as femininity as shown in the book The psychoanalysis of children, by Melanie Klein. The perspective herein is that this author transposes the classical logic of the subjective constitution of the Western world, i.e., that the phallus/masculine would be the starting point for sexual differentiation. In epistemological terms, the Kleinian notion of femininity, used in this investigation as a lens for reading such work, shall allow us to better understand the basis of the author’s conception of mother, in addition to revising the Oedipus complex and the proposition of new concepts.

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Author Biography

  • Marcos Leandro Klipan, Universidade Estadual de Maringá

    Professor adjunto do Departamento de Psicologia e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brasil.

Published

2018-12-31

How to Cite

Klipan, M. L. (2018). Femininity and kleinian systematization: the mother’s body as the stage of psychic genesis. Clinical Styles. The Journal on the Vicissitudes of Childhood, 23(3), 483-502. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v23i3p483-502