1st Edition

Identification Papers Readings on Psychoanalysis, Sexuality, and Culture

By Diana Fuss Copyright 1995
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

The notion of identification, especially in the discourse of feminist theory, has come sharply and dramatically into focus with the recent interest in such topics as queer performativity, cross-dressing, and racial passing. Identification Papers is the first book to track the evolution of identification's emergence in psychoanalytic theory. Diana Fuss seeks to understand where this notion of... Read more
Introduction: Figuring Identification; Chapter 1 Identification Papers; Chapter 2 Fallen Women: “The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman”; Chapter 3 Oral Incorporations: The Silence of the Lambs; Chapter 4 Sexual Contagions: Dorothy Strachey's Olivia; Chapter 5 Interior Colonies: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of Identification;

Biography

Diana Fuss