Between the Psyche and the Social Psychoanalytic Social Theory

by Edwin, Steve; Lorraine, Tamsin; Ferrell, Robyn; Oliver, Kelly; Seshadri-Crooks, Kalpana; Restuccia, Frances; Kaplan, E Ann; Peebles, Catherine; Zakin, Emily; Walsh, Lisa; Willett, Cynthia

• ISBN13: 9780742513099
• ISBN10: 0742513092
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-17
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Between the Psyche and the Social is the first collection that specifically features the field of psychoanalytic social theory emerging in and between psychoanalysis, feminism, postcolonial studies, and queer theory, and across the disciplines of philosophy, literary, film, and cultural studies. This collection of essays takes the psychoanalytic study of social oppression in some new directions by engaging--indeed, stirring up--unconscious fantasies and ethical tensions at the heart of social subjectivity.

Table of Contents

Psychic and Social Engagements	vii
Steve Edwin
Kelly Oliver
Part I: Mapping the Social Psyche
Oedipus and the Anoedipal Transsexual	3	(16)
Tamsin Lorraine
The Pleasures of the Slave	19	(10)
Robyn Ferrell
The Forgetting of Feeding: Luce Irigaray's Critique of Martin Heidegger	29	(20)
Mary Beth Mader
Part II: Social Oppression and Ethics of Love
Psychic Space and Social Melancholy	49	(18)
Kelly Oliver
The Ethics of Travel	67	(16)
Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks
Queer Love	83	(16)
Frances Restuccia
Part III: Social Agents of Trauma and Witnessing
Trauma, Cinema, Witnessing: Freud's Moses and Monotheism and Tracey Moffatt's Night Cries	99	(24)
E. Ann Kaplan
``Impossible'' Professions: Sarah Kofman, Witnessing, and the Social Depth of Trauma	123	(26)
Steve Edwin
Part IV: Feminism and the Social Psyche
The Psyche of Feminism (and the Institution of Women's Studies)	149	(10)
Catherine M. Peebles
Beyond the Sexual Contract: Traversing the Fantasy of Fraternal Alliance	159	(26)
Emily Zakin
Paternal Perversion, the Imaginary Father, and the Promise of Love	185	(18)
Lisa Walsh
A Dialectic of Eros and Freedom: Beauvoir and Marcuse	203	(12)
Cynthia Willett
Index	215	(4)
About the Contributors	219