Jacques Lacan: A Feminist IntroductionGrosz 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. |
Contents
| 1 | |
| 6 | |
2 The ego and the imaginary | 24 |
3 Sexuality and the symbolic order | 50 |
4 Language and the unconscious | 82 |
5 Sexual relations | 115 |
6 Lacan and feminism | 147 |
Conclusion | 188 |
Notes | 193 |
| 206 | |
| 215 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
able absence accept active affirmed analysis articulated associations attempt become biological body castration child claims complex conception condition consciousness constitutes critical culture defined demand describes desire difference directed discourse dream drive effect elements example existence experience explain expression fact father female femininity feminist Freud function give given human identification identity imaginary individual infantile internal interpretation Irigaray knowledge Kristeva Lacan lack language libidinal linguistic logic male masculine maternal means memory metaphor mirror mother narcissistic natural object oedipal organ particular patriarchal penis phallic phallocentric phallus pleasure position possible present processes production psychical psychoanalysis question reading Real reality relation remains represent representation role satisfaction seems semiotic sense separated sexual signifier simply social space speaking stage structure substitute symbolic takes texts theory tion unconscious understanding wish woman women