Arguing with the phallus : feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory : a psychoanalytic contribution / Jan Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Jan, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and feminism.

Homosexuality--Philosophy.

Postcolonialism.

Psychoanalysis and culture.

Local Subjects:

Psychoanalysis and culture.

Physical Description:

vi, 248 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

What can psychoanalysis offer contemporary arguments in the fields of Feminism, Queer Theory and Post-Colonialism? Jan Campbell introduces and analyses the way that psychoanalysis has developed and made problematic models of subjectivity linked to issues of sexuality, ethnicity, gender, and history. Via discussions of such influential and diverse figures as Lacan, Irigaray, Kristeva, Dollimore, Bhabha, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker, Campbell uses psychoanalysis as a mediatory tool in a range of debates across the human sciences, while also arguing for a transformation of psychoanalytic theory itself.

Contents:

Postmodernism and the Bodily Imaginary

1 Psychoanalysis and Politics 19

2 Between Realist and Narcissistic Ego, or between Experience and Text 48

3 Between Psychoanalysis and Feminism 76

4 Post-Lacanian Feminism: Reading the Symbolic, Imaginary and Real 102

5 Queering the Phallus 131

6 Gay Desire and the Bodily Imaginary 159

7 Colonial Desires and the Postcolonial 'Subject' 191

8 Situating the Cultural Unconscious: Reading and Recreating Myths and Memory 218.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1856494438

1856494446

OCLC:

43083238