| Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the Ecole Freudienne Contributor(s): Lacan, Jacques (Author), Mithell, Juliet (Editor), Mitchell, Juliet (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0393302113 ISBN-13: 9780393302110 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1985 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Psychology | Human Sexuality (see Also Social Science - Human Sexuality) |
| Dewey: 155.3 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 4.81" W x 7.3" (0.37 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Psychoanalysis is certainly one of the most contested areas of debate within feminism. This book presents articles on feminine sexuality by Lacan and members of the école freudienne, the school of psychoanalysis that Lacan directed in Paris from 1964 to 1980. The question of feminine sexuality has divided the psychoanalytic movement since the 1920s. Despite their opposition to each other, contemporary psychoanalysis and feminism both reject Freud's phallocentrism. This book forcefully reasserts the importance of the castration complex in Freud's work and of the phallus in the work of Lacan, offering them not as a reflection of a theory based on male supremacy and privilege but as the terms through which any such privilege is exposed as a fraud. Lacan's rereading of Freud is seen here to reveal, in a way that no other account has been able to do, the arbitrary and fictional nature of both male and female sexual identity and, specifically, the fantasy behind the category woman as the dominant fetish of our culture. These texts reveal that women constantly exceed the barriers of the definition to which they are confined. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rose, Jacqueline: - JACQUELINE ROSE is Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London. Her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision; The Question of Zion; and the novel Albertine.Lacan, Jacques: - The psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) was one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. His many published works include Ecrits and The Seminars.Rose, Jacqueline: - JACQUELINE ROSE is Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London. Her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision; The Question of Zion; and the novel Albertine.Rose, Jacqueline: - JACQUELINE ROSE is Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London. Her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision; The Question of Zion; and the novel Albertine. |