How Has the Repression of the Sacred Feminine in the Patriarchal Culture Affected Female Sexuality From a Depth Psychological Perspective?

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren C. Costine
Keyword(s):  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Depth Psychological ◽  
Sacred Feminine ◽  
Patriarchal Culture

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Pia Sophia Chaudhari
Keyword(s):  
Depth Psychology ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Depth Psychological ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Theological Perspective

Dynamis of Healing: Patristic Theology and the Psyche explores possible experiential traces of Orthodox Christian ontology and soteriology in the healing of the psyche, as known and experienced through depth psychology, by examining a possible relationship between theology and depth psychology as mediated through a lens of the sacramentality of creation. Chapter 1 maps the territory for inclusion of the psyche, as understood in depth psychological terms, in discussions of salvation and healing. Chapter 2 explores a central premise of patristic soteriology, giving an outline of the thought of several key church fathers and exploring the Eastern Orthodox emphasis on theosis as a model of transformation. Chapter 3 discusses a possible ontology of healing by looking at St. Maximus’s concept of the logoi of being and clinical insights into the psyche as always seeking to manifest healing qua psyche. Chapter 4 concludes the book by considering the importance of eros and desire from both a theological perspective and a depth psychological perspective.

Eros: Healing Fire

2019 ◽  
pp. 105-148
Author(s):  
Pia Sophia Chaudhari
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Depth Psychological ◽  
Theological Perspective

This chapter considers the importance of eros and desire from both a theological perspective and a depth psychological perspective. Using St. Maximus’s concept of the tropoi of being, eros is considered as a dynamic driver of the psyche.

Diva Seductions

Diva Nation ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Miller ◽  
Rebecca Copeland
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Special Problem ◽  
Culturally Informed ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
Female Icon ◽  
The Way

The introduction describes how we define and think about the diva in this volume. We discuss the way divas systematically draw our attention to the performative nature of identity, to gender, and to battles over control of female bodies and female sexuality. We want our case studies to move beyond archival portraits to consider historically and culturally informed diva imagery and diva lore. From ancient goddesses and queens to modern singers and writers, we note that each chapter critically reconsiders the female icon, tracing how she has been offered up for emulation, debate, or censure. We ask how the diva disrupts or bolsters ideas about nationhood, morality, and aesthetics. She is ripe for expansion, fantasy, eroticization, and playful reinvention, yet her unavoidability also makes her a special problem for patriarchal culture.

Making Mrs Grundy's Flesh Creep: George Egerton's Assault on Late-Victorian Censorship

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-77
Author(s):  
Anthony Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Patriarchal Culture

In recent evaluations of mutually shaping interactions between Modernism and literary censorship, Modernism is ultimately viewed as successfully challenging the censorship of texts deemed to be of literary value. As later modernists do, Egerton produces provocative constructions of female sexuality and reflexively inscribes within her fiction the theme of censorship. As part of such an inscription, and distinct from her male contemporaries, Egerton does not gender censorship as a womanly librarian or a matronly figure such as Mrs Grundy, but figures it as very much part of a patriarchal culture which seeks to tame instinctual nature, and especially the wilder nature of women.

scholarly journals Is There a Lesbian Identity in the Arab Culture?

1970 ◽  
pp. 86-90
Author(s):  
Dr. Iman Al-Ghafari
Keyword(s):  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Main Interest ◽  
Lesbian Identity ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
Feminist Discourse ◽  
Lesbian Studies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Female Homosexuality

The subject of female homosexuality in the Arab intellectual tradition has always been one of absence or dismissal. This can be attributed to the fact that female sexuality is mostly seen as primarily heterosexual in a predominantly patriarchal culture. Consequently, erotic relations among women are devalued as a temporary substitute for the love of men, and are considered of no real threat to the dominant heterosexual system as long as they remain undercover, or in the closet. Because homoerotic desire “defies social norms, breaks patternsand expectations for relationships” (Hart 69), homosexuality is a taboo subject that is rarely dealt with in Arabic literature. Hence, my main interest in this paper is to examine the grass roots of the lesbian identity in feminist discourse, and to relate the representations of lesbians in some interdisciplinary publications in lesbian studies to two recent Arabic novels: Misk Al-Ghazal (Women of Sand and Myrrh, 1986) by Hanan Al-Shaykh, and Ana, Hiya, Anti (I am You, 2000) by Elham Mansour.

"Slipping into the Ha-Ha": Bawdy Humor and Body Politics in Jane Austen's Novels

2000 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Heydt-Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Venereal Disease ◽  
Marriage Market ◽  
Critical Comment ◽  
Body Politics ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Full Understanding ◽  
Mansfield Park ◽  
Patriarchal Culture

The novels of Jane Austen are filled with instances of sexually risqué humor, but this aspect of her comedy has rarely been recognized or subjected to extended critical comment and analysis. This essay examines the way in which Austen integrates bawdy humor into three of her novels-Emma, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion-in order to demonstrate the surprising prevalence of this material and to show how Austen marshals bawdy humor both in the service of a critique of patriarchal culture, including the system of marriage and courtship, and as a way to affirm the vigorous reality of female sexuality. In Emma Austen uses the riddle "Kitty, a fair, but frozen maid" as the basis of a subversive portrait of the profound linkages between courtship and venereal disease; in Mansfield Park (the novel perhaps most replete with sexual material) she wittily but also poignantly dissects the fine line between the marriage market and prostitution; and in Persuasion Austen's bawdy joking becomes a way to affirm the strength and pleasure of the female sexual gaze. This essay offers a more comprehensive view of the uses to which Austen puts her bawdy humor; it not only helps to clarify her fictional art but also breaks down the image of her propriety that has so long limited our full understanding of Austen and has rendered her less-chaste comedy especially unintelligible and inaccessible.

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