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1 online resource (xi, 216 pages) : illustrations |
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SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture |
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SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
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1: "On the signification of the Phallus" (1958) -- According to Lacan -- 2: Freud's "female sexuality" (1931) and "femininity" (1932): Oedipus revisited via the Lacanian pre-Oedipus -- 3: Feminine sexuality, or why the sexual difference makes all the difference: Lacan's "for a congress on feminine sexuality" (1958) -- 4: A rereading of Freud's 1925 essay: "some psychical consequences of the anatomical distinction between the sexes: through Lancan's theory of sexuation -- 5: The place of the mother in Lacanian analysis: Lacan's theory of the object, or castration rethought |
| Summary |
"In The Logic of Sexuation, Ellie Ragland offers a detailed account of Jacques Lacan's theories of gender, sexuality, and sexual difference. Exploring Lacan's rereading (via Aristotle) of Freud's major essays on feminine sexuality, Ragland demonstrates that Lacanian theory challenges essentialist notions of gender more effectively than do current debates in gender studies, which are typically enmeshed in an imaginary impasse of one sex versus or interchanged with the other. Although much American feminist thought on Lacan has portrayed him as anti-Woman, Ragland argues that Lacan was, in fact, pro-Woman, as he felt that no advances in analytic cure, or in thinking itself, could evolve except by embracing the feminine logic of the "not all," with its particular modes of jouissance. Ragland also aims to make sense of the terms phallus, castration, sexuation, the object a, jouissance, and so on, in relation to the question of sexual difference. In doing so, she uncovers Lacan's theory that the learning of sexual difference is what makes it possible to think dialectically at all."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-208) and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
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Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 |
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Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 |
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Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981. |
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Sex (Psychology)
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Gender identity.
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Sexuality -- psychology
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Gender Identity
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sex role.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality.
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Gender identity
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Sex (Psychology)
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Sexualpsychologie
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Seksualiteit.
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Psychoanalyse.
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Sekseverschillen.
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Sexualidade (aspectos psicológicos;psicologia)
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Psicanálise.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1423739833 |
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9781423739838 |
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0791460789 |
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9780791460788 |
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0791460770 |
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9780791460771 |
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9780791485149 |
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0791485145 |
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