Women And Desire by Polly Young-Eisendrath - 9780749922160

Women And DesireBeyond wanting to be wanted\nAuthor(s): Polly Young-Eisendrath\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom\nImprint: Piatkus Books\nISBN-13: 9780749922160, 978-0749922160\nSynopsis\nMany 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 .