Primary Femininity: Discussions on a Central Identity

Contributors: :

Daniel Benveniste, Christina Biedermann, Thomas DePrima, Carolyn Ellman, Giselle Galdi, M. Sagman Kayatekin, Merle Molofsky, Adriana Prengler, Arlene Kramer Richards.

Topics Include:: The Female Oedipus Complex; Metaphorizing the Oedipus Complex; Musings on Arlene Kramer, Richards's "The Female Oedipus Complex"; Matrescence: Illuminating Oedipus's Shadow; Revisiting the Female Oedipus Complex: How Trauma and Gendered Attitudes Also Shape Development; Little Girls and Little Boys, Women and Men, Who Are We?; Desire, Identity and The Female Oedipus Today: On Arlene Kramer Richards's 'The Female Oedipus Complex; Conversations with Arlene Kramer Richards; Psychoanalytic History-Sketches; The Power of Exclusion, (An Ode to Sheldon Bach and Sándor Ferenczi).