ABSTRACT
In this landmark collection of original essays, outstanding feminist critics in Britain, France, and the United States present new perspectives on feminism and psychoanalysis, opening out deadlocked debates. The discussion ranges widely, with contributions from feminists identified with different, often opposed views on psychoanalytic criticism. The contributors reassess the history of Lacanian psychoanalysis and feminism, and explore the significance of its institutional context. They write against the received views on 'French feminism' and essentialism. A remarkable restatement of current positions within psychoanalysis and feminism, the volume as a whole will change the terms of existing debates, and make its arguments and concerns more generally accessible.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|35 pages
The story so far
part Two|25 pages
The story framed by an institutional context
part Three|52 pages
Towards another symbolic (1): the essential thing
part Four|47 pages
Towards another symbolic (2): beyond the phallus
chapter Chapter Nine|15 pages
‘Their “symbolic” exists, it holds power—we, the sowers of disorder, know it only too well’
part Five|37 pages
Sexual difference (1): reason and revolution
chapter Chapter Twelve|18 pages
Feminism and deconstruction, again: negotiating with unacknowledged masculinism
part Six|41 pages
Sexual difference (2): the psychical in the social