Philosophy

Interpretation of Carol Gilligan 's In a Different Voice

In a Different Voice ' by Carol Gilligan has been called a revolutionary book , a turning point in the development of feminism , or at least feministic psychology . It is hard to say whether Gilligan herself pursued such a purpose , although she declares rather ambitious objectives , which are to to bring women 's voices into psychological theory and to reframe the conversation between women and men . The question statement demonstrates that , under Gilligan , women voices were not previously heard by psychologists . As she notes , in

most concepts men 's experience stands for all of human experience--theories which eclipse the lives of women and shut out women 's voices . Thus , a different voice is a voice of a female psychologist writing on a female psychology from the female point of view

The construction of classical psychology stands on the foundations laid down by Sigmund Freud , it is further developed by such prominent thinkers as Carl Jung , Abraham Maslow , Eric Berne and Erik Erikson while females are mostly perceived as their students (like Sabina Spielrein ) or adepts developing their teachings , yet unable to propose an original teaching themselves (like Marie-Louise von Franz . This caused psychology to become a male business ' and made women dependent on the ideas of men , and oppressed by those ideas . Protests against such situation took mostly literary form , with Yellow Walls ' being most famous . The development of specific female psychology has been hindered by the fact that the major psychological theories...