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God is a woman

Title
God is a woman / Rafael E. López-Corvo.
Author
López Corvo, Rafael E.
Publication
Northvale, NJ : Jason Aronson, 1997.

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Description
xxv, 158 pages; 22 cm.
Summary
  • Tattooed somewhere in every mind is the sensual memory of a mother's young body and enveloping love. In God is a Woman, Venezuelan psychoanalyst Rafael E. Lopez-Corvo links the force of this impression with the maddening power that women exert over men. The roots of violence toward women, he argues, are in fact based on man's eternal longing for his mother and envy of her reproductive capacity. Guilt-ridden by their erotic and reproductive power, women collude with men's envy of them and struggle against the biological and psychological qualities that distinguish them from men. Women search for their rights in a confused way and in the wrong direction - by idealization of men and imitation of their apparent freedom, political power, and money.
  • Masculinity becomes exalted and femininity devalued, and women become progressively masculinized. In his bold analysis, Lopez-Corvo suggests that the answer is not to give up the struggle, but to stop the fight. Women should search inside, within the mystery of their own femininity, for their own identity, and find the place where God could be a woman.
Series Statement
Gender in crisis series
Uniform Title
Gender in crisis
Subject
  • Women and religion
  • Femininity of God
  • Feministische theologie
  • Psychoanalytische interpretatie
  • God
  • Sekseverschillen
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-146) and index.
Contents
Foreword: A Prophecy in Favor of Women -- 1. The Complicity of Eve -- 2. The Three Phases of Eve -- 3. The Antithesis as a Defense -- 4. The Imprinting -- 5. The Power of Women's Bodies -- 6. The "Giraffe-Woman" or Latin American "Confused Eve" -- 7. The Freudian Woman -- 8. The Cloaca Theory -- 9. The Basic Injury -- 10. Anal Space, Uterine Space -- 11. The Power of Magic -- 12. Alchemy -- 13. Totem and Taboo: From God-Man to God-Woman -- 14. Femininity -- 15. Confused Eve -- 16. Adam -- 17. Vindicated Eve -- 18. Beyond the Imprinting.
ISBN
  • 1568218621
  • 9781568218625
LCCN
96015630
OCLC
  • ocm34514475
  • 34514475
  • SCSB-2114413
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library