1st Edition
Lacan and Critical Feminism Subjectivity, Sexuation, and Discourse
By Rahna McKey Carusi
Copyright 2021
188 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
188 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
188 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book takes a critical feminist approach to Lacan’s fundamental concepts, merging discourse and sexuation theories in a novel way for both psychoanalysis and feminism, and exploring the possibility of a feminist subject within a non-masculine logic.
In Lacan and Critical Feminism , Carusi merges Lacan’s theories of discourse and sexuation, not only from a gender/sexuality angle, but... Read more
Preface
Acknowledgments
1: Introduction
2: A (re)turn to Lacan
QUILTING POINT: A literary discussion on metaphor and metonymy
3: The troped body
4: The materiality of the letter
QUILTING POINT: I AM A MAN and the essence of Woman
5: Woman as metonymy: or, I am not your manqué l’être
QUILTING POINT: The masculine symptom in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
6: Jouissance and ethical extimacy
7: Myth, truth, and non-phallic sexuation
QUILTING POINT: Tapping into excess, or the feminist trilogies
8: The dethroning of the father
Works cited
Index
Biography
Rahna McKey Carusi, educational developer in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Digital Innovation at Massey University, New Zealand.
