Jacques Lacan : a feminist introduction / / Elizabeth Grosz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910960735103321
• Autore: Grosz E. A (Elizabeth A.)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1990
• ISBN: 1-134-98108-2; 1-280-32817-7; 0-203-13353-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 pages)
• Disciplina: 150; 150.19/5/092; 150.1950924
• Soggetti: Psychoanalysis and feminism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Jacques Lacan: A feminist introduction; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Psychoanalysis and scandal; Which psychoanalysis?; Psychoanalytic subversions; Psychoanalysis and feminisms; 2 The ego and the imaginary; Freud's two views of the ego; The realist ego; The narcissistic ego; Lacan and the mirror phase; The Real preconditions of the ego; Vision and the specular image; Infantile transitivism and primordial jealousy; The imaginary anatomy; Summary; 3 Sexuality and the symbolic order; Freud's two theories of sexuality; Sexuality and signification; Need, demand, and desire; Oedipus, the name-of-the-father, and the Other The drive and the signifier; Summary; 4 Language and the unconscious; The Freudian unconscious; The topography of the unconscious; The primary processes: condensation and displacement; Dream interpretation; The unconscious structured like a language; The signifier; Metaphor and metonymy; Lacanian algorithms of the unconscious; The paternal metaphor; Freud's dream of the 'Botanical Monograph'; Summary; 5 Sexual relations; The penis and the phallus; The phallus and power; Anaclisis, narcissism, and romantic love; Lacan and romantic love; 'There is no sexual relation' Lacan and femininity; 6 Lacan and feminism; Dutiful daughters; The semiotic and symbolic; Semanalysis ; and psychoanalysis; Maternity or the avant-garde; Defiant women; Phallocentrism and sexual difference; Femininity and language; The genealogy of women; Seducer or seduced?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Grosz gives a critical overview of Lacan's work from a feminist perspective. Discussing previous attempts to give a feminist reading of his work, she argues for women's autonomy based on an indifference to the Lacanian phallus.