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Remembering the Phallic Mother

psychoanalysis, modernism, and the fetish

by Marcia Ian

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Language: English

The formidable image of the phallic mother-a grown woman with breasts and a penis-occupies the symbolic center of psychoanalytic theories of sex and gender, as well as the center of many of the controversies these theories have provoked.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ancient religions, animism, and ritual.

  • Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary matched “Fetishism”. Retained metadata contains “Fetishism” in the subject metadata.

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    • Fetishism· in subject

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psychoanalysis, modernism, and the fetish

Open Library record

1993Cornell University PressEnglish
  • 9780801426377
  • 0801426375
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openlibrary-work:OL4305333W
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