1st Edition
Subjectivity Theories of the self from Freud to Haraway
By Nick Mansfield
Copyright 2000
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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What am I referring to when I say 'I'? This little word is so easy to use in daily life, yet it has become the focus of intense theoretical debate. Where does my sense of self come from? Does it arise spontaneously or is it created by the media or society? Do I really know myself? This concern with the self, with our subjectivity, is now our main point of reference in Western societies. How has... Read more
Contents
Introduction
1. The Free and Autonomous Individual
2. Freud and the Split Subject
3. Lacan: The Subject is Language
4. Foucault: The Subject and Power
5. Femininity: Female Imaginary to Masquerade
6. Kristeva and Abjection: Subjectivity as a Process
7. Masculinity: Saving the Post-Oedipal World
8. Radical sexuality: From Perverse to Queer
9. Subjectivity and Ethnicity: Otherness, Policy, Visibility, Colonialism
10. Deleuze and Guattari: Rhizomatics
11. The Subject and Technology
12. The Subject and Postmodernism
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Introduction
1. The Free and Autonomous Individual
2. Freud and the Split Subject
3. Lacan: The Subject is Language
4. Foucault: The Subject and Power
5. Femininity: Female Imaginary to Masquerade
6. Kristeva and Abjection: Subjectivity as a Process
7. Masculinity: Saving the Post-Oedipal World
8. Radical sexuality: From Perverse to Queer
9. Subjectivity and Ethnicity: Otherness, Policy, Visibility, Colonialism
10. Deleuze and Guattari: Rhizomatics
11. The Subject and Technology
12. The Subject and Postmodernism
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Biography
Nick Mansfield is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University. He is co-author of Cultural Studies and the New Humanities (Oxford 1997) and author of Masochism: The art of power (Praeger 1997).
