The question of feminine sexuality has divded the psychoanalytic movement since the 1920s. Despite their opposition to each other, contemporary psychoanalysis and feminism both reject Freud's phallocentrism. This book forcefully reasserts the importance of the castration complex in Freud's work and of the phallus in the work of Lacan, offering them not as a reflection of a theory based on male supremacy and priviledge but as the terms through which any such priviledge is exposed as a fraud. Lacan's rereading of Freud is seen here to reveal, in a way that no other account has been able to do, the arbitrary and fictional nature of both male and female sexual identity and, specifically, the fantasy behind the category "woman" as the dominant fetish of our culture. These texts reveal that women constantly exceed the barriers of the definition to which they are confined.
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The question of feminine sexuality has divded the psychoanalytic movement since the 1920s. Despite their opposition to each other, contemporary psychoanalysis and feminism both reject Freud's phallocentrism. This book forcefully reasserts the importance of the castration complex in Freud's work and of the phallus in the work of Lacan, offering them not as a reflection of a theory based on male supremacy and priviledge but as the terms through which any such priviledge is exposed as a fraud. Lacan's rereading of Freud is seen here to reveal, in a way that no other account has been able to do, the arbitrary and fictional nature of both male and female sexual identity and, specifically, the fantasy behind the category "woman" as the dominant fetish of our culture. These texts reveal that women constantly exceed the barriers of the definition to which they are confined.
Imprint | W W Norton & Co Inc |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | March 1985 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | March 1985 |
Authors | Jacques Lacan |
Editors | Juliet Mithell, Juliet Mitchell |
Dimensions | 185 x 122 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 187 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-393-30211-0 |
Barcode | 9780393302110 |
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LSN | 0-393-30211-3 |