The Body and Its Sexual Enigma: Masculine Versus Feminine in Gender Studies
The Body and Its Sexual Enigma: Masculine Versus Feminine in Gender Studies

Summary/Abstract: The body includes the sex as an organ, but sex and its enigma have been thoroughly studied by many fields of science, including medicine, psychology, or psychoanalysis. Freud is known as the initiator of psychoanalysis and his greatest achievement was to transform the way we think about ourselves. Jacques Lacan continued the psychoanalytic studies commenced by his predecessor, but viewed them from a totally new perspective. An area apparently less scientific, but also dealing with body and sexuality is feminism. It is a duty of feminist writers to embellish the (sexual) feminine image men have created and also try to warn feminist counterparts about the shortcomings of reaching the typical feminine figure.

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