Saturday, December 09, 2006
Women and Desire; Beyond Wanting to be Wanted by Polly Young-Eisendrath
The author of this book is a Jungian psychologist so I found pieces of this book a little hard to swallow and too psychoanalytic for me. That aside, I found many of the observations in this book around compliance, latent desires, and desire for competence very familiar. Thought not as accesible to Knapp's Appetites (yes, I did read it again this year) it was worthwhile. Perhaps what I learned the most from the book was in the forward, where Young-Eisendreth explains her change from asking her female patiens, "What do YOU want," to "What do you WANT."
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