Outside and Inside, Male and Female

“Fathers” and “Daughters”

“…Freud, 1930;1931;Horney, 1967;Kestenberg, 1968). Benjamin cast her account of the power of the father's identificatory love in a toddler, pre-Oedipal world.…”

From Selfobjects to Mutual Recognition: Towards Optimal Responsiveness in Father and Daughter Relationships

“…Bergmann (2005) has noted that the father's earliest relationship with his mother contributes markedly to the emotional quality of his relationship with his baby, noting that the anticipation of and experience of paternity is as deeply experienced in men as is motherhood for women. This represents a shift in emphasis in thinking about fatherhood, from the Oedipal phase, although in an earlier paper, Kestenberg (1968) noted that both sexes pass through a prephallic, inner genital stage of the fantasy of making babies until boys renounce this wish and later deny the feminine in themselves. The feminist psychoanalytic writers of the 1970s emphasized the role of womb envy and the overwhelming dread of female power in male misogyny (MacDougall, 1972, Chasseguet-Smirgal, 1976Chodorow, 1978;Irigaray, 1985).…”

Psicoanálisis, cultura y sociedad

“…La conceptualización que Kestenberg (1968Kestenberg ( , 1988 y Berstein (1993) realizan sobre la genitalidad femenina considerándola como un sistema abierto determinado por los órganos genitales internos en la mujer constituye otra aportación fundamental. Sus estudios sobre una genitalidad interna en las mujeres, cuya experiencia implica angustias genitales particulares asociadas con los órganos sexuales de la mujer constituyen un avance significativo acerca de la comprensión de la sexualidad femenina y la maternidad.…”