Between Feminism and Psychoanalysis

by Brennan; Teresa

• ISBN13: 9780415014908
• ISBN10: 0415014905
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 8/10/1989
• Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

Summary

A remarkable restatement of current positions within psychoanalysis and feminism, this collection of essays includes discussions of Freud, Lacan and contemporary French feminist thought.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
The Story So Far	p. 25
Moving Backwards or Forwards	p. 27
Still Crazy after All These Years	p. 40
Notes	p. 57
The Story Framed by an Institutional Context	p. 61
The Politics of Impenetrability	p. 63
Notes for an Analysis	p. 73
Towards Another Symbolic (1): The Essential Thing	p. 87
The Politics of Ontological Difference	p. 89
Rereading Irigaray	p. 106
The Gesture in Psychoanalysis	p. 127
Towards Another Symbolic (2): beyond the Phallus	p. 139
Thoroughly Postmodern Feminist Criticism	p. 141
'Their "Symbolic" Exists, It Holds Power - We, the Sowers of Disorder, Know It Only Too Well'	p. 153
Echo and Narcissus	p. 168
Sexual Difference (1): Reason and Revolution	p. 187
Patriarchal Thought and the Drive for Knowledge	p. 189
Feminism and Deconstruction, Again: Negotiating with Unacknowledged Masculinism	p. 206
Sexual Difference (2): The Psychical in the Social	p. 225
Cutting Up	p. 227
Of Female Bondage	p. 247
Notes on the Contributors	p. 266
Index	p. 268
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