Between feminism and psychoanalysis / edited by Teresa Brennan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brennan, Teresa, 1952-

King's College (University of Cambridge)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist therapy--Congresses.

Feminist therapy.

Psychoanalysis and feminism--Congresses.

Psychoanalysis and feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Based on a series of talks given at Cambridge University in King's College from Jan. to July 1987.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-134-98031-0

1-134-98032-9

1-280-19905-9

0-203-32987-2

0-203-01112-0

9780203011126

OCLC:

252715612