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Lacan and critical feminism : subjectivity, sexuation, and discourse / Rahna McKey Carusi.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Carusi, Rahna McKey, author.
Contributor:
Taylor & Francis eBooks.
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:
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