Sigmund Freud and his Patient Margarethe Csonka: A Case of Homosexuality in a Woman in Modern Vienna Shapira Michal
Sigmund Freud and his Patient Margarethe Csonka: A Case of Homosexuality in a Woman in Modern Vienna Shapira Michal This book provides a historical analysis of one of Sigmund Freud's least-studied…
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Sigmund Freud and his Patient Margarethe Csonka: A Case of Homosexuality in a Woman in Modern Vienna Shapira Michal
This book provides a historical analysis of one of Sigmund Freud's least-studied cases, published in 1920 as The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman.Scholars of sexuality often focus on Freud's writings on male homosexuality, disregarding his views on homosexual women. Part I introduces the case and explores Freud's attitudes towards lesbianism, radical among his medical colleagues in the early twentieth century. This book serves as a corrective, renewing and reinvigorating interest in Freud, and demonstrating that his views on sexuality are as relevant today as ever.
Michal Shapira considers Freud's only treatment of a "female homosexual" and assesses Csonka's background life before and after the encounter. It also puts Margarethe Csonka, the patient, at its centre. Part II expands the case beyond the scientific-medical purview of the times and looks at