Reviews for Thinking through the body

The average rating for Thinking through the body based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-02-12 00:00:00 Shahid Logan This is a very odd book. The cover is mentioned in the preface (or introduction, or whatever it was called), which required me to go back and actually look at it, until I found the baby's face. I do think it's an odd choice for a cover, but as the book is nominally about motherhood and mothers, it is appropriate. I am very ambivalent about this book. There was no compulsion to read it. I don't particularly agree with the vast majority of Freudian psychoanalysis and I must admit I found it rather bizarre to apply it to the works of the Marquis de Sade (none of which I have read). There really is only so much I can take of the "phallic mother" and the "castrated mother" and all oedipal nonsense. Unless you're particularly interested in de Sade or Freud, I wouldn't recommend this.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-03-23 00:00:00 Declan Butler Written for woman to help them understand how their relationship to their father damaged them. I read it in the hope of being a better dad. Ask my chicklets in 20 years if it worked ...