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Feminine Sexuality
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The question of feminine sexuality has divided 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 privilege but as the terms through which any such privilege 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
200
Release Date:
1985-03-01
Publication Date:
1985-03-01
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0393302113
ISBN13:
9780393302110
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Weight:
194 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
178 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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