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Between feminism and psychoanalysis

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In this landmark collection of original essays, outstanding feminist critics in Britain, France, and the United States present new perspectives on feminism and psychoanalysis, opening out deadlocked debates. The discussion ranges widely, with contributions from feminists identified with different, often opposed views on psychoanalytic criticism. The contributors reassess the history of Lacanian psychoanalysis and feminism, and explore the significance of its institutional context. They write against the received views on 'French feminism' and essentialism. A remarkable restatement of current p

Title Between feminism and psychoanalysis / edited by Teresa Brennan.
Publisher London
New York : Routledge
Creation Date 1989
Notes Based on a series of talks given at Cambridge University in King's College from Jan. to July 1987.
Includes bibliographical references.
English
Content Book Cover
Title
Contents
Preface
Introduction Teresa Brennan
The story so far
Moving backwards or forwards Jane Gallop
Still crazy after all these years Rachel Bowlby
The story framed by an institutional context
The politics of impenetrability Lisa Jardine
Notes for an analysis Alice Jardine
Towards another symbolic (1): the essential thing
The politics of ontological difference Rosi Braidotti
Rereading Irigaray Margaret Whitford
The gesture in psychoanalysis Luce Irigaray
Towards another symbolic (2): beyond the phallus
Thoroughly postmodern feminist criticism Elizabeth Wright'Their ~symbolic~ exists, it holds power
we, the sowers of disorder, know it only too well' Morag Shiach
Echo and Narcissus Naomi Segal
Sexual difference (1): reason and revolution
Patriarchal thought and the drive for knowledge Toril Moi
Feminism and deconstruction, again: negotiating with unacknowledged masculinism Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Sexual difference (2): the psychical in the social
Cutting up Joan Copjec
Of female bondage Parveen Adams
Notes on the contributors
Index
Extent 1 online resource (280 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010708089905171
MARC RECORDS

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