Chebakova, Yu. V. The Structure of Female Sexuality in Personality Disorders

Abstract: Achievement of mature female sexuality, unlike male sexuality, assumes successful completion of the two contradictory tasks –separation from mother and final identification with her as the image of fertility. Different variants of female development within the conditional norms show what difficulties a girl has to deal with in order to achieve the aforesaid integration. In personal pathology that is related to the phenomenon of infantile sexuality such ontological purpose becomes literally impossible without psychoanalytical assistance. Difficulties and peculiarities of the process of achieving femininity as well as future perspectives depend on parameters of the mother’s behavior. On one hand, pathological patterns of the mother-and-daughter relationship cause various personality disorders and on the other hand they also define the specific structure of female sexuality. The author of the present article views stages of female sexuality from the point of view of development of the erotic desire and the mother’s contribution to formation of the structure. When a woman uses her mature and capable of reproduction body, she may also realize her infantile needs under the guise of pseudo adult sexual behavior. The author of the article describes the two pathological phenomena of female sexuality — promiscuity and anorgasmia — and their relation to narcissistic, hysterical and masochism personality disorders as a part of distorted love relations.

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