Odile jacob feb 2000 (4 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What do pregnant women dream of for nine months Do they think of the child to be born, or do their thoughts go to the child they once were Why is it that'some women have always desired motherhood, while others never become mothers or, if they do, it is almost by chance, without them making a conscious decision Why is it that the child's date of birth often coincides with the birthday of a close friend or family member Maternity is too often presented in ideal terms or as the object of practical, reassuring advice on pregnancy and birth. Based on her clinical experience in a maternity hospital, Monique Bydlowski shows how the current normative thinking, which has been energetically picked up by the media, glosses over the reality of pregnancy and perhaps intentionally minimises the dark or unconscious forces that are at work in the creation of a child.Monique Bydlowski is a doctor, a neuropsychiatrist and a psychoanalyst. For the last twenty years, she has been working, as a psychanalyst, in the maternity ward of a Parisian hospital.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Mammals have two olfactory organs: the olfactory mucus and the vomeronasal organ, which was discovered at the beginning of the nineteenth century. For long, it was believed that the latter did not serve any purpose in humans. Then in 1949, certain substances were discovered, at first in insects, which could act on the vomeronasal organ by direct contact. Known as pheromones, these substances are regarded as essential for communication between animals of certain species. Since 1970, it has been known that they play a vital role in human sexual desire and in the control of reproduction.Claude Aron explains that the olfactory attraction between sexual partners is a universal phenomenon, even if its role among humans is more limited than among other mammals. In animal species the role of pheromones has not been curbed by centuries of social conditioning. Olfactory attraction functions regardless of the gender of the sexual partners which raises the question: Are pheromones proof of our natural bisexuality Claude Aron, a specialist in reproductive physiology, is an honorary professor at the University Louis-Pasteur in Strasbourg. He is the author of La Bisexualité et l ordre de la nature.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Do women have a soul Philosophers have historically doubted this, refusing to accord women rationality. However, at the same time, they have been unable to imagine the soul without the help of feminine metaphors: the soul conceives, it is pregnant with knowledge, it gives birth in pain and distress but always with the help of someone. In reading classic texts such as Derrida, and deconstructing them while drawing comparisons with others and focusing on what may seem paradoxical, such as the many Freudian slips, Giulia Sissa leads us to interrogate ourselves on the exclusively feminine attributes of the Western soul. This suggestive and thorough work is a radical questioning of the difference between the sexes which leads us to the most profound aspects of our culture.Giulia Sissa is a professor of literature and Greek civilisations at the John Hopkin's University in Baltimore. She has published Pleasure and Evil with Odile Jacob.…