Thinking Fragments : Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary West / Jane Flax.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flax, Jane, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Psychoanalysis and feminism.

Feminist theory.

Postmodernism.

Philosophy, Modern--20th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1990]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Something Is Happening: On Writing in a Transitional State

2. Transitional Thinking: Psychoanalytic, Feminist, and Postmodernist Theories

3. Freud: Initiation and Omission in Psychoanalysis

4. Lacan and Winnicott: Splitting and Regression in Psychoanalytic Theory

5. Feminisms: Stories of Gender

6. Postmodernism: Thinking in Fragments

7. No Conclusions: Gender, Knowledge, Self, and Power in Transition

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520329409

0520329406

OCLC:

1153485059