Jacques Lacan : a feminist introduction / Elizabeth Grosz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grosz, Elizabeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Psychoanalysis and feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Grosz gives a critical overview of Lacan's work from a feminist perspective. Discussing previous attempts to give a feminist reading of his work, she argues for women's autonomy based on an indifference to the Lacanian phallus.

Contents:

Cover; Jacques Lacan: A feminist introduction; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Psychoanalysis and scandal; Which psychoanalysis?; Psychoanalytic subversions; Psychoanalysis and feminisms; 2 The ego and the imaginary; Freud's two views of the ego; The realist ego; The narcissistic ego; Lacan and the mirror phase; The Real preconditions of the ego; Vision and the specular image; Infantile transitivism and primordial jealousy; The imaginary anatomy; Summary; 3 Sexuality and the symbolic order; Freud's two theories of sexuality; Sexuality and signification; Need, demand, and desire

Oedipus, the name-of-the-father, and the Other The drive and the signifier; Summary; 4 Language and the unconscious; The Freudian unconscious; The topography of the unconscious; The primary processes: condensation and displacement; Dream interpretation; The unconscious structured like a language; The signifier; Metaphor and metonymy; Lacanian algorithms of the unconscious; The paternal metaphor; Freud's dream of the 'Botanical Monograph'; Summary; 5 Sexual relations; The penis and the phallus; The phallus and power; Anaclisis, narcissism, and romantic love; Lacan and romantic love

'There is no sexual relation' Lacan and femininity; 6 Lacan and feminism; Dutiful daughters; The semiotic and symbolic; Semanalysis and psychoanalysis; Maternity or the avant-garde; Defiant women; Phallocentrism and sexual difference; Femininity and language; The genealogy of women; Seducer or seduced?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-98108-2

1-280-32817-7

0-203-13353-6

9780203133538

OCLC:

437080410