THE ANATOMY OF THE CLITORIS Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis Group http:/taylorandfrancis.com THE ANATOMY OF THE CLITORIS Reflections on the Theory of Female Sexuality Anne Zachary RO Routledge UTLEDG Taylor & Francis Group E LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2018 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © 2018 by Anne Zachary The right of Anne Zachary to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record has been requested for this book ISBN: 978-1-78220-525-8 (pbk) Typeset in Palatino LT Std by Medlar Publishing Solutions Pvt Ltd, India For Jean Rosemary 1927– History shows a full gallery of feminine prototypes, many of whom embrace the phallic emblem, and thus arose the queen, the goddess, the cruel woman, who are all far from Freud’s poor melancholic submissive one —Alcira Mariam Alizade Interminable virgin lands are waiting in silence for someone who is daring enough to reveal them —Alcira Mariam Alizade Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis Group http:/taylorandfrancis.com CONTENTS LIST OF CHARTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS ix ABOUT THE AUTHOR xi FOREWORD xiii by Michael Rustin PREFACE xvii INTRODUCTION xxiii Part I 1 Womankind through history 3 2 The anatomy of the clitoris: a re-interpretation 13 3 The historical development of the psychoanalytic theory of female sexuality (1897–2000) 25 vii viii CONTENTS Part II 4 The anatomy of the clitoris: clinical evidence of psychic representation 39 5 Bisexuality: a universal phenomenon 53 6 Motherhood: the fundamental aim 71 7 Femininity: the key to the box 79 8 Aggression and the female form 87 Part III 9 Recent developments in the literature 101 AFTERTHOUGHTS 105 NOTES 109 REFERENCES 113 INDEX 119 LIST OF CHARTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1. The Venerina (Little Venus), a dissectible, anatomical wax model made by Clemente Susini for the museum of Palazzo Poggi, Bologna, Italy (1792). Courtesy of Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, Sistema Museale di Ateneo—Museo di Palazzo Poggi 10 Figure 2. The female corpus spongiosum re-visited. Reprinted from Acta Obstetricia Gynecologica Scandinavica, Van Turnhout (1995) 15 Figure 3. The historical development of the psychoanalytic theory of female sexuality shown as a grid. Compiled from Schuker and Levinson (1991), Female Psychology: An Annotated Bibliography, chapter 18: Sexuality. Penryn: The Atlantic Press 26 Figure 4. Some frames of reference used in the psychoanalytic theory of female sexuality 33 Figure 5. Russian dolls. Drawn by my patient Mrs L 48 ix