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This paper takes issue with the way in which female sexuality and sexual repression has been limited by phallocentric position which has largely ignored the very real connection between sex and physical suffering, injury and death in childbirth which might have given women good cause to fear sex. It links the time at which Freud became interested in the subject, and various aspects occurring in the world around him in terms of history. The article suggests looking at hysteria as a phenomenon arising at a point where there is an extreme amalgamation of the life and death drives, and as a discourse that escalates at certain periods of history, when this fusion reaches, for whatever reason, a particularly high concentration. Vienna was such a point during the 19th and early 20th centuries, where the birth of psychoanalysis took place against the backdrop of a steep ‘inexplicable’ increase in female mortality in childbirth and neighboured with stunning discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics and revolution in art.
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The British Journal of Psychotherapy is a journal for psychoanalytic and Jungian-analytic thinkers, with a focus on both innovatory and everyday work on the unconscious in individual, group and institutional practice. As an analytic journal, it has long occupied a unique place in the field of psychotherapy journals with an Editorial Board drawn from a wide range of psychoanalytic, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, psychodynamic, and analytical psychology training organizations. As such, its psychoanalytic frame of reference is wide-ranging and includes all schools of analytic practice. Conscious that many clinicians do not work only in the consulting room, the Journal encourages dialogue between private practice and institutionally based practice. Recognizing that structures and dynamics in each environment differ, the Journal provides a forum for an exploration of their differing potentials and constraints. Mindful of significant change in the wider contemporary context for psychotherapy, and within a changing regulatory framework, the Journal seeks to represent current debate about this context.
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