Women and Desire: Beyond Wanting to Be Wanted - Hardcover

Young-Eisendrath Ph.D., Polly

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 060960371X ISBN 13: 9780609603710

Publisher: Harmony, 1999

Synopsis

An internationally recognized Jungian analyst and psychologist helps women reclaim true desire for themselves. Not since Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex has female desire been explored so deeply and provocatively.

This groundbreaking book delves into the complex world of female desire where women simply "want to be wanted." Many women encourage others to identify or validate images that give them feelings of worth or vitality and then feel resentful because they have sacrificed their real needs and desires. Instead of knowing who they really are and what they would like to do with their lives, they become trapped in their images. As a result, self-direction, self-confidence, and self-determination are undermined from adolescence through old age.

Dr. Polly Young-Eisendrath examines this damaging syndrome of female development, showing women, and girls, how to untangle themselves from the web of reflected images that confuses or conceals their authentic wants and needs. Women and Desire empowers women to understand and take control of their sexual, social, and spiritual lives.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"This beautifully conceived book speaks to women who feel stretched between their desire to be loved and their desire to fulfill their own personal identity. One path, they believe, requires sacrificing the other. Dr. Young-Eisendrath presents??through lessons gleaned from myth and psychotherapy??a third way to what women really want: the absolute freedom to make their own choices. An original and revealing work!"
??June Singer, author of Modern Woman in Search of Soul

About the Author:

Polly Young-Eisendrath, ph.d., is a psychologist and Jungian psychoanalyst practicing in Burlington, Vermont, where she is also clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Vermont Medical College. She has published ten books, including The Resilient Spirit, You're Not What I Expected, and Female Authority, as well as many chapters and articles. Dr. Young-Eisendrath lectures worldwide on the topic of women's development.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harmony
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 060960371X
• ISBN 13: 9780609603710
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272