ABSTRACT
I propose to address a specific problem thrown up by the engagement of feminism with psychoanalysis, focusing on feminist criticism. The problem facing a feminist criticism is how to give woman access to discourse: the choice for her has been that of either submitting to the public language of patriarchy or of inventing a private language which keeps her marginalized and/or involves the risk of making her sound mystical. I write ‘has been’, for I shall argue that the current state of feminist criticism is such as to have created a space for her between these boundaries, a space more recognizable in the context of postmodernism.
