Challenges essentialist notions of gender through a detailed account of Lacan's theories of gender, sexuality, and sexual difference.
Author(s): Ellie Ragland-Sullivan
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 216
0791460770......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 8
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 10
1. “On the Signification of the Phallus” (1958) According to Lacan......Page 14
2. Freud’s “Female Sexuality” (1931) and “Femininity” (1932): Oedipus Revisited via the Lacanian Pre-Oedipus......Page 42
3. Feminine Sexuality, or Why the Sexual Difference Makes All the Difference: Lacan’s “For a Congress on Feminine Sexuality” (1958)......Page 78
4. A Rereading of Freud’s 1925 Essay: “Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes” through Lacan’s Theory of Sexuation......Page 104
5. The Place of the Mother in Lacanian Analysis: Lacan’s Theory of the Object, or Castration Rethought......Page 156
Conclusion......Page 192
1. “On the Signification of the Phallus” (1958) According to Lacan......Page 206
2. Freud’s “Female Sexuality” (1931) and “Femininity” (1932)......Page 209
3. Feminine Sexuality, or Why the Sexual Difference Makes All the Difference......Page 211
4. A Rereading of Freud’s 1925 Essay......Page 213
5. The Place of the Mother in Lacanian Analysis......Page 217
Conclusion......Page 221
C......Page 222
F......Page 223
K......Page 224
M......Page 225
P......Page 226
S......Page 227
T......Page 228
Z......Page 229
