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The Difficulty of Difference Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference and Film Theory
By D. N. Rodowick
Copyright 1991
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and female spectatorship, the author maintains that early film theorists and feminist critics are equally guilty of imposing a binary conception of sexual difference on Freud’s thought. By embracing such a... Read more
Preface 1. The Difficulty of Difference 2. The Return of the Exile 3. Reading Freud…Differently 4. Metamorphoses 5. The Difference of Reading 6. Analysis Interminable
Biography
D. N. Rodowick
