g most of the culturally stereotypic behaviors and notions) would be viewed as having psychic pathology. Treatment would consist of the promotion of resistance to the normative construct of gender-polarized identity.
Goldner's (1991) new perspective of gender and its role in psychoanalytic theory is an approach that appears to be shifted, strongly shifted, away from early Freudian notions. However, what is interesting is that some contemporary theorists accept Goldner's approach and yet argue that there are certain early Freudian concepts of gender that can nonetheless be retained as meaningful and relevant.
For example, Benjamin (1991) accepts Goldner's model, and yet---within that very framework---illustrates the utility and logic of a notion of Freud that has not only been strongly challenged but also strongly rejected by some contemporary psych
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