Psychoanalytic Explorations of the Masculine and the Maternal

In this book, Yael Pilowsky Bankirer reads into Freud's writings with the unique prism of circumcision as a marker for both the formation of masculine identity, and for matricide, the disappearance of the mother.

Auteur

Yael Pilowsky Bankirer is a psychoanalyst and poet based in Cambridge, UK. She is a medical doctor and has a PhD in Gender Studies and Psychoanalysis. She is a member of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and an editor for Sitegeist - A Journal of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy.