ABSTRACT
This chapter offers the "Pure Heroines" course, stressing how popular culture mobilizes shared feminist discourse, and insight into class members' unique identities, and creative expressions. It argues that interpretation, as professor and psychoanalyst, of the place of college women in America might contribute to the ongoing discussion of how to make psychoanalytic knowledge that was once so revolutionary not only available, but also relevant to the next generation. The new feminism leaves the academy behind in many ways and is impatient with the deliberations even of that branch of psychoanalysis that seeks to limit, prescribe, and diagnose the energizing sexuality and aggression that fuels the progress so eagerly sought by young women today. Many of the personal narratives of these young students con cerned their experience of feminism as it speaks to their emerging sexual lives. The Dropbox became a repository of media the students were encountering, accumulating evidence of the rising tide of contemporary feminism.
