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A History of the Breast by Yalom, Marilyn is a art available to read on EtoBox.
What is A History of the Breast about?
This engrossing work of original research is the first to consider how the breast has been perceived in the Western world from ancient days to the present - how it has been understood in religion, in the arts, in medicine, in psychoanalysis (by Freud as erotically secondary to the phallus, then by Melanie Klein as the original object of desire).
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- Author
- Yalom, Marilyn
- Publisher
- New York: Alfred A. Knopf: Distributed by Random House, Inc.
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780679434597
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Folklore, Anthropology, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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