1st Edition

Jacques Lacan A Feminist Introduction

By Elizabeth Grosz Copyright 1990
    228 Pages
    by Routledge

    228 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Introduction; Chapter 1 Psychoanalysis and scandal; Chapter 2 The ego and the imaginary; Chapter 3 Sexuality and the symbolic order; Chapter 4 Language and the unconscious; Chapter 5 Sexual relations; Chapter 6 Lacan and feminism; Conclusion;

    Biography

    Grosz, Elizabeth