Feminism and its discontents : a century of struggle with psychoanalysis / Mari Jo Buhle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buhle, Mari Jo, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and feminism.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An ambitious and highly engaging history of ideas, Feminism and its Discontents brings together far-flung intellectual tendencies rarely seen in intimate relation to each other - and shows us a new way of seeing both.

With Sigmund Freud flummoxed about what women want, any encounter between psychoanalysis and feminism would seem to promise a standoff. Yet, Mari Jo Buhle argues that the 20th-century's two great theories of liberation actually had a great deal to tell each other.; Starting with Freud's 1909 speech to an audience that included the feminist and radical Emma Goldman, Buhle recounts the twists and turns this exchange took in the United States up to the 1990's American vogue of Jacques Lacan. While chronicling the contributions of feminism to the development of psychoanalysis, she also makes a case for the benefits psychoanalysis brought to feminism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Feminism, Freudianism, and Female Subjectivity

2. Dissent in Freud’s Ranks

3. Culture and Feminine Personality

4. Momism and the Flight from Manhood

5. Ladies in the Dark

7. Feminine Self-in-Relation

8. The Crisis in Patriarchal Authority

9. In the Age of the Vanishing Subject

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-416) and index.

ISBN:

9780674029071

0674029070

OCLC:

923110220