Publication details
Female Erotic Desire
| Authors | |
|---|---|
| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Human Affairs-Postdisciplinary Humanities Social Sciences Quarterly |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2018-0020 |
| Keywords | desire; eroticism; sexuality; agency; discourse |
| Description | This paper explores the epistemology and methodology for describing sexual/erotic desire in women. Culture provides a variety of discourses which create possibilities for individual agents to think, experience and act. This paper outlines the dominant discourses of sexuality. The main focus is on the emerging psychodynamic understanding of erotic desire as a cultivated way of experiencing and expressing intersubjective embodied desire. The narrative of a female research participant has been selected as an illustrative case. A combination of qualitative (interpretive) methods is employed. |