Femininity, Desire and Sublimation in Psychoanalysis: From the Melancholic to the Erotic
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2022
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 125
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 96723
- ISBN 13 : 9781032140810
- ISBN 10 : 9781032140
About the Author(s)
Elda Abrevaya trained in the Psychoanalytic Society of Paris (SPP) and is a training analyst of the Istanbul Psychoanalytic Association. She has worked as a professor in the Psychology Department of the University of Puerto Rico and in a Mental Health Center there. Her clinical experience in this setting has been the subject of three books which study childhood, madness, psychiatric institution and poverty: El Nino, su Sufrimiento y la Pobreza (San Juan, 1992); Del Espejo al Otro (San Juan, 1998); and La Locura como Pasion (San Juan, 1999). She has recently published on femininity with a special focus on ageing and menopause: The Long and Tortuous Path to Femininity (Istanbul, 2014).