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Nationalist movements are emerging today everywhere in the world. Many of them display a high level of aggression and a negative attitude toward sexuality and especially female sexuality. Along with this, erotic fiction with a sadomasochistic orientation has achieved great success and has hundreds of millions of readers in the world. This collective fantasy allows some integration of aggression in sexual life while questioning liberal morality and its equality in gender roles and conservative morality and its idea of control over passion. Both phenomena may represent different responses to the appearance of a new female sexuality threatening the social structure we know.
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1Miguel Angel Gonzalez-Torres, M.D., Ph.D.is a Full Professor at the Department of Neuroscience, University of the Basque Country; Head of the Psychiatry Department, Basurto University Hospital. Bilbao, Spain and a Training Analyst. Centro Psicoanalítico de Madrid.
2Aranzazu Fernández-Rivas, M.D., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Department of Neuroscience, University of the Basque Country and Section Chief, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Basurto University Hospital, Bilbao, Spain.
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Angel Gonzalez-Torres, M., Fernández-Rivas, A. FEMALE SEXUALITY, NATIONALISM AND LARGE GROUP IDENTITY. Am J Psychoanal 75, 416–437 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1057/ajp.2015.47
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