What Lacan Said About Women

What Lacan Said About Women
Title What Lacan Said About Women PDF eBook
Author Colette Soler
Publisher Other Press, LLC
Pages 342
Release 2020-10-06
Genre Psychology
ISBN 1635421292

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The definitive work on Lacan's theory of the feminine. With exquisite prose and penetrating insights, Colette Soler shares her theoretical and clinical expertise in this vibrant new text. She spins out seductive explications of Lacan's thought on the controversial question of sexual difference. With the subtlety that these topics deserve, she takes up Lacan's conception of woman and her relation to masochism, femininity and hysteria, love and death, and the impossible sexual relation. Following more than the usual suspects, What Lacan Said About Women also explores the mother's place in the unconscious, how Lacan understands depression, and why depressives feel unloved. Soler's analysis examines the cultural implications of the texts that Lacan produced from the 1950s to the 1970s, such as the effects of science on contemporary conceptions of the feminine. She gracefully bridges the gap still left open between psychoanalysis and cultural studies. Winner of the Prix Psyche for the best work published in the fields of psychology and psychoanalysis in 2003, this book will appeal to cultural critics, especially those in gender and women's studies, as well as to anyone involved in contemporary theory or clinical practice. This study will transform novices within the field of Lacanian theory into informed thinkers and it will substantially supplement and refine the knowledge of Lacanian veterans.

Imagine There's No Woman

Imagine There's No Woman
Title Imagine There's No Woman PDF eBook
Author Joan Copjec
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 278
Release 2004-09-17
Genre Psychology
ISBN 9780262532709

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A psychoanalytic and philosophical exploration of sublimation as a key term in Jacques Lacan's theories of ethics and feminine sexuality. Jacques Lacan claimed that his theory of feminine sexuality, including the infamous proposition, "the Woman does not exist," constituted a revision of his earlier work on "the ethics of psychoanalysis." In Imagine There's No Woman, Joan Copjec shows how Freud's ragtag, nearly incoherent notion of sublimation was refashioned by Lacan to become the key term in his ethics. To trace the link between feminine being and Lacan's ethics of sublimation, Copjec argues, one must take the negative proposition about the woman's existence not as just another nominalist denunciation of thought's illusions about the existence of universals, but as recognition of the power of thought, which posits and gives birth to the difference of objects from themselves. While the relativist position currently dominant insists on the difference between my views and another's, Lacan insists on this difference within the object I see. The popular position fuels the disaffection with which we regard a world in a state of decomposition, whereas the Lacanian alternative urges our investment in a world that awaits our invention. In the book's first part, Copjec explores positive acts of invention/sublimation: Antigone's burial of her brother, the silhouettes by the young black artist Kara Walker, Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills, and Stella Dallas's final gesture toward her daughter in the well-known melodrama. In the second part, the focus shifts to sublimation's adversary, the cruelly uncreative superego, as Copjec analyzes Kant's concept of radical evil, envy's corruption of liberal demands for equality and justice, and the difference between sublimation and perversion. Maintaining her focus on artistic texts, she weaves her arguments through discussions of Pasolini's Salo, the film noir classic Laura, and the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination.

What Does a Woman Want?

What Does a Woman Want?
Title What Does a Woman Want? PDF eBook
Author Serge Andre
Publisher Other Press, LLC
Pages 381
Release 1999-03-17
Genre Psychology
ISBN 189274628X

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Freud's question is at the root of his discoveries about the unconscious. Serge André says that a woman wants the truth, and, in this subtle and highly original comparison of Freud and Lacan, he explains why.

Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan
Title Jacques Lacan PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Grosz
Publisher Routledge
Pages 208
Release 2002-09-11
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1134981082

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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.

Does the Woman Exist?

Does the Woman Exist?
Title Does the Woman Exist? PDF eBook
Author Paul Verhaeghe
Publisher Other Press, LLC
Pages 371
Release 2013-04-16
Genre Psychology
ISBN 1590516710

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This book describes how Freud attempted to chart hysteria, yet came to a standstill at the problem of woman and her desire, and of how Lacan continued along this road by creating new conceptual tools. The difficulties and upsets encountered by both men are examined. This lucid presentation of the dialectical process that carries Lacan through the evolution of Freud’s thought offers profound insights into the place of the “feminine mystique” in our social fabric. Patiently and carefully, Verhaeghe applies the Lacanian grid to Freud’s text and succeeds in explaining Lacan’s formulations without merely recapitulating his theories. The reader is informed, along the way, not only of Lacan’s take on Freudian ideas, but also of the array of interpretations emerging from other trends in post-Freudian literature, including feminist revisionism.

Feminine Sexuality

Feminine Sexuality
Title Feminine Sexuality PDF eBook
Author Jacques Lacan
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 206
Release 1985
Genre Psychology
ISBN 9780393302110

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Jacques Lacan is arguably the most controversial psychoanalyst of our time.

On Feminine Sexuality the Limits of Love and Knowledge

On Feminine Sexuality the Limits of Love and Knowledge
Title On Feminine Sexuality the Limits of Love and Knowledge PDF eBook
Author Jacques Lacan
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 164
Release 1999-11-23
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780393319163

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In his psycholinguistic exploration of the relationship between the desire for love and the attainment of knowledge, Jacques Lacan leads into an new way of interpreting the two most fundamental human drives.