Progress in Self Psychology, V. 12

Chapter 17
Self Psychology: A Feminist Re-Visioning
Susann Pangerl

 

From an ego-psychological perspective it can be seen how women will form their personal identities from the same identity mechanisms as those of men but by interacting with a cultural environment which denies them, as women, the imaginary models that nurture competence, genius, and transcendence.

—Marissa Zavalloni

A FEMINIST PRELUDE

How to speak of developmental and relational processes in ways that privilege women's experiences is central in feminist writings. Lacking in most of this literature is a dynamic psychological language capable of sharpening the critical edge of the feminist analyses of women's subjectivities and relational experiences. Furthermore, ...