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Lacan and critical feminism : subjectivity, sexuation, and discourse / Rahna McKey Carusi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carusi, Rahna McKey, author.
- Series:
- Lines of the Symbolic in Psychoanalysis.
- The Lines of the Symbolic in Psychoanalysis
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
- Lacan, Jacques.
- Feminist theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 178 pages : illustrations (black and white.)
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- A literary and critical approach to psychoanalysis p. 6
- The book's trajectory p. 9
- 2 A (re)turn to Lacan p. 13
- Discourse, psychoanalytically speaking (or, discourse and the directionality of the subject) p. 13
- The four discourses p. 17
- The hysteric's discourse p. 18
- The hysteric and the feminine p. 19
- Discourse and sexuation p. 22
- Quilting Point: A literary discussion on metaphor and metonymy p. 31
- 3 The troped body p. 37
- The hysterical symptom and its inscription on the body p. 38
- Metaphor, always behind the throne of metonymy p. 41
- Metonymy, the articulation of desire p. 44
- The gaze and the L schema p. 48
- 4 The materiality of the letter p. 57
- The materiality of the letter p. 57
- Affect: shame and guilt p. 59
- Shame, the "feminine" position, and the letter p. 65
- The paradigmatic queen p. 67
- The letter conflated with Woman p. 68
- Woman does not exist, but neither, perhaps, does the phallus p. 71
- Quilting Point: I Am A Man and the essence of Woman p. 75
- Woman as metaphor (and the conundrum of the wisdom to pick one's battles wisely) p. 76
- Schlafly v. Johnson: the problematic of Woman as essence p. 77
- 5 Woman as metonymy: Or, I am not your manqué l'être p. 81
- Woman as metonymy p. 81
- Contiguity and refiguration: Irigaray and her critics p. 84
- Speaking as Woman: the discursive limitations of enjoyment and the discursive enjoyment of limitations p. 88
- A metonymic disfiguration of masculinist syntax p. 90
- Quilting Point: The masculine symptom in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men p. 99
- 6 Jouissance and ethical extimacy p. 109
- The monstrous Woman: symbolic failure in Antichrist p. 109
- Woman and extimacy p. 114
- A psychoanalytic feminism does not need a penis-phallus relation p. 116
- 7 Myth, truth, and non-phallic sexuation p. 123
- Lacan's sexuation graph p. 124
- The sexuation graph's lower quadrants p. 130
- The first revolution: towards a discursive signification of desire's metonymy p. 136
- Quilting Point: Tapping into excess, or the feminist trilogies p. 141
- Inland Empire p. 146
- Inland Empire's men p. 147
- Critique of the trafficking of women p. 148
- The symptom that drives the hysterical film and the hysterical viewer p. 151
- The fading of masculinist logic: aphanisis and metonymic identifications p. 153
- 8 The dethroning of the father p. 157
- An ethics of the hysteric's discourse and the labor of desire p. 161
- S₁ replaces φ in the sexuation graph p. 166
- Beyond masculinist logic p. 168.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record
- Other Format:
- ebook version
- ISBN:
- 9780429242731
- 0429242735
- Publisher Number:
- 40030385751
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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