The Second Sex at the Proof of Psychoanalysis

• Published in: L'Homme et la société Vol. 179-180; pp. 31 - 45
• Main Author: Roudinesco, Elisabeth
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: French
• Published: 01.01.2011
• Subjects: Femininity; London England; Philosophers; Psychoanalysis; Sexuality; Vienna Austria; Writers

Suddenly The Second Sex that increases once more time the fear of the female sex and of its so-called savagery. Beauvoir is insulted for the same reasons than Freud has been. In France, she is the initiator to the psychoanalytical debate on the feminine sexuality between Vienna and London during the...