The Spectral Mother: Freud, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis

By Madelon Sprengnether

Book Overview

A ghostlike object of simultaneous fascination and dread, the mother plays a marginal role in Freud's theoretical writings. Madelon Sprengnether finds Freud's attitudes toward the preoedipal mother to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801423872
• ISBN13: 9780801423871
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.