A01=Polly Young-Eisendrath
Author_Polly Young-Eisendrath
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Product details
- ISBN 9780749922160
- Weight: 360g
- Dimensions: 138 x 214mm
- Publication Date: 26 Apr 2001
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Many years ago the famous French psychoanalyst Jaques Lacan said that women want to be wanted, not to be loved. Now, in her fascinating book about female desire and empowerment, internationally renowned Jungian analyst and author Polly Young-Eisendrath explores this idea further. Women look to others to provide them with confidence, happiness and self-esteem. This reliance produces a need to please others, in order to receive praise. We please others by trying to conform to an image, rather than finding out what our real needs are. If this image conflicts with our inner needs we can become resentful, frustrated and out of control. Often we deal with this unhappiness by trying even harder to make ourselves the kind of spouse, lover, mother or worker who is wanted and desired. We have to abandon these female images and discover our own real needs, without fear or shame. Only by learning to voice these needs clearly, and meet them from within, can we escape the cycle of 'wanting to be wanted'.
Polly Young-Eisendrath is an internationally renowned psychologist, a Jungian analyst, a couple therapist and a Buddhist. She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont and the author of several books.
