TY - JOUR
AU - Sherfey, Mary Jane
AB - THE EVOLUTION AND : NATURE OF i MARY JANE SHERFEY, M.D. IN RELATION TO PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY : Part I On the other hand it should be made quite clear that the uncertainty of our speculation has been greatly increased by the necessity for borrowing from the science of biology. Biology. is truly a land of unlimited possibilities. TYe may expect it to give us the most surprising information and we cannot guess what answers it will return in a few dozen years to the questions we have put to it. They may be of a kind which will blow away the whole of our artificial structure of hypo theses. --SIGMUND FREUD (1 7) HE FEW dozen years have passed and biology is indeed return- ing to us the most surprising information. This paper is a T biological study of female sexual evolution and functioning with emphasis on those aspects most relevant to human sexuality, psychoanalytic theory, and Freud’s enduring “artificial structure of hypotheses.” Introduction Three phenomena of female sexuality are unique (or almost so) to Homo sapietzs and remain inadequately understood: the pre- menstrual tension syndrome; our “silent” ovulation, i.e., the escape from estrus periodicity bringing on our capacity 
TI - The Evolution and Nature of Female Sexuality in Relation to Psychoanalytic Theory
JF - Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
DO - 10.1177/000306516601400103
DA - 1966-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/the-evolution-and-nature-of-female-sexuality-in-relation-to-DBFUFL5Dok
SP - 28
EP - 128
VL - 14
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -