Passivity, Masochism and Femininity

A call for psycho-affective change: Fanon, feminism, and white negrophobic femininity

“…Because this entails a repudiation of the more active, 'masculine' sexuality they enjoyed in their childhood, girls retain more instinctual aggression in a sexualized form than boys do 92 what Fanon refers to as one of the 'failures' of this process (a 'normal' process of adjustment to patriarchal norms). To be sure, Bonaparte, following Freud, argues that the aggression of a boy 'succeeds in desexualizing itself better than' 93 that of a girl, who 'remains, throughout life, more subject to her infantile libidinal urges'; 94 and this aggression tends to get directed back onto the self, because in girls, the libido 'is far more preponderantly turned back upon the subject' with the result that '[m]asochism in woman is far stronger than in man'. 95 Fanon also follows the Freudian example quite closelyagain, as developed by Bonapartein attempting to make sense of rape fantasies about Black men.…”

“…To be sure, Bonaparte, following Freud, argues that the aggression of a boy 'succeeds in desexualizing itself better than' 93 that of a girl, who 'remains, throughout life, more subject to her infantile libidinal urges'; 94 and this aggression tends to get directed back onto the self, because in girls, the libido 'is far more preponderantly turned back upon the subject' with the result that '[m]asochism in woman is far stronger than in man'. 95 Fanon also follows the Freudian example quite closelyagain, as developed by Bonapartein attempting to make sense of rape fantasies about Black men. For Bonaparte, 'flagellation phantasies' such as that explored by Freud in his 1919 essay A Child is Being Beaten are crucial to female sexual development because they enable an effective transition from clitorality to vaginality.…”

“…As Bonaparte puts it, the fantasy of being beaten is 'the psychosexual connecting link by which the clitoridal libido of the girl… by passive and masochistic regression evolves into full vaginality'. 96 Indeed, she believes that only by having 'more or less unconscious[ly] accept[ed]… immense masochistic beating phantasies' 97 can females achieve vaginal sensitivity, and abandon the clitoris. This is also why, according to Bonaparte in 1953, it is 'popular wisdom that women like "being beaten"'for the normal woman necessarily adjusts (through her masochistic turn) to the fact that, in normal sex, she 'is subjected to a sort of beating by the man's penis', and even comes to 'lov[e] their violence'.…”

Winnicott e a identidade feminina: uma análise histórico-crítica

“…Inicialmente, se buscará a compreensão da mulher e do feminino na psicanálise em geral, a partir das obras completas de Freud (1996) e de artigos de psicanalistas originalmente publicados em: The International Journaul of Psycho-Analysis com contribuições de Ophuijen (1917), Stärcke (1920), Abraham (1922), Deutsch (1924Deutsch ( , 1929, Horney (1925Horney ( , 1932Horney ( , 1933, Müller (1925), Müller-Braunschweig (1926), Jones (1927Jones ( , 1935, Klein (1927), Riviere (1927), Lampl de Groot (1928), Fenichel (1931), Bonaparte (1934); Selected Writings de Abraham (1924); e o artigo de Deutsch (1932) no primeiro volume do jornal americano…”

“…Especificamente em relação à questão do masoquismo, Bonaparte (1934) também reforça a importância desse elemento como constituinte do desenvolvimento psicossexual das mulheres, estando presas ao sofrimento ligado às experiências sexuais, seja pela perda da virgindade ou pela reprodução.…”