Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction

by Grosz,Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780415014007
• ISBN10: 041501400X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1990-08-22
• Publisher: Routledge

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(5)
Psychoanalysis and scandal	6	(18)
Which psychoanalysis?	8	(2)
Psychoanalytic subversions	10	(9)
Psychoanalysis and feminisms	19	(5)
The ego and the imaginary	24	(26)
Freud's two views of the ego	24	(7)
The realist ego	25	(3)
The narcissistic ego	28	(3)
Lacan and the mirror phase	31	(16)
The Real preconditions of the ego	32	(3)
Vision and the specular image	35	(6)
Infantile transitivism and primordial jealousy	41	(2)
The imaginary anatomy	43	(4)
Summary	47	(3)
Sexuality and the symbolic order	50	(32)
Freud's two theories of sexuality	51	(7)
Sexuality and signification	58	(22)
Need, demand, and desire	59	(8)
Oedipus, the name-of-the-father, and the Other	67	(7)
The drive and the signifier	74	(6)
Summary	80	(2)
Language and the unconscious	82	(33)
The Freudian unconscious	82	(9)
The topography of the unconscious	83	(4)
The primary processes	87	(2)
Dream interpretation	89	(2)
The unconscious structured like a language	91	(14)
The signifier	93	(5)
Metaphor and metonymy	98	(3)
Lacanian algorithms of the unconscious	101	(2)
The paternal metaphor	103	(2)
Freud's dream of the `Botanical Monograph'	105	(8)
Summary	113	(2)
Sexual relations	115	(32)
The penis and the phallus	116	(6)
The phallus and power	122	(4)
Anaclisis, narcissism, and romantic love	126	(5)
Lacan and romantic love	131	(6)
`There is no sexual relation'	137	(3)
Lacan and femininity	140	(7)
Lacan and feminism	147	(41)
Dutiful daughters	150	(17)
The semiotic and the symbolic	150	(4)
Semanalysis and psychoanalysis	154	(6)
Maternity or the avant-garde	160	(7)
Defiant women	167	(16)
Phallocentrism and sexual difference	174	(2)
Femininity and language	176	(4)
The genealogy of women	180	(3)
Seducer or seduced?	183	(5)
Conclusion	188	(5)
Notes	193	(13)
Bibliography	206