The definitive work on Lacan's theory of the feminine.With exquisite prose and penetrating insights, Colette Soler shares her theoretical and clinical expertise in this vibrant new text. She spins out seductive explications of Lacan's thought on the controversial question of sexual difference. With the subtlety that these topics deserve, she takes up Lacan's conception of woman and her relation to masochism, femininity and hysteria, love and death, and the impossible sexual relation. Following more than the usual suspects, What Lacan Said About Women also explores the mother's place in the unconscious, how Lacan understands depression, and why depressives feel unloved.Soler's analysis examines the cultural implications of the texts that Lacan produced from the 1950s to the 1970s, such as the effects of science on contemporary conceptions of the feminine. She gracefully bridges the gap still left open between psychoanalysis and cultural studies. Winner of the Prix Psyche for the best work published in the fields of psychology and psychoanalysis in 2003, this book will appeal to cultural critics, especially those in gender and women's studies, as well as to anyone involved in contemporary theory or clinical practice. This study will transform novices within the field of Lacanian theory into informed thinkers and it will substantially supplement and refine the knowledge of Lacanian veterans.
Author(s): Colette Soler,
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 340
Contents ......Page 6
Translator's Note ......Page 14
I Prologue ......Page 20
1 Anna O., The First ......Page 22
II Che Vuoi?......Page 26
2 A Woman ......Page 28
Responding By Means Of The Oedipus Complex ......Page 29
The Manifestations Of The Notavhole ......Page 32
What Does This Woman Want? ......Page 34
The Mark Of Woman ......Page 37
Clinical Program ......Page 38
3 What Does The Unconscious Say About Women? ......Page 42
The Freudian Woman ......Page 43
Is Lacan Freudian? ......Page 45
The Law Of Desire ......Page 46
Clinical Elements ......Page 48
"appearances Of The Sex" ......Page 50
Feminine Desire Interpreted ......Page 53
Woman Is Not The Mother ......Page 55
The Absolute Other ......Page 58
III Differential Clinic......Page 62
Introduction ......Page 64
4 Hysteria And Femininity ......Page 66
The Structure Of Language (lanqaqe) ......Page 67
The Dream Is A Metaphor ......Page 68
Metonymy In The Dream ......Page 71
Three Identifications ......Page 73
Hysteria And The Feminine Position ......Page 78
Feminine Love ......Page 85
5 Are Women Masochistic? ......Page 88
The Metaphor Of Masochism ......Page 89
Impressions Of Masochism ......Page 94
Impressions Of Woman ......Page 97
"moral Masochism"? ......Page 100
The Quarrel Over Depression ......Page 106
A Sign Of The Times ......Page 109
Why Depressed People Aren't Loved ......Page 110
What Depression Says ......Page 112
The Cause Of Desire Inside Out ......Page 114
The Effectiveness Of Castration ......Page 116
A Differential Clinic ......Page 118
A Surplus Of Melancholy ......Page 120
A Hint Of Sadness ......Page 121
Benefits Of The Well-spoken ......Page 125
IV The Mother......Page 126
7 The Mother In The Unconscious ......Page 128
The Debate Over The Mother ......Page 129
Reproaching The Mother ......Page 132
Maternal Power ......Page 134
The Child As Object ......Page 135
The Child As Interpreter ......Page 137
The Mother, Other ......Page 140
Questioning Maternal Love ......Page 144
Mother, Woman ......Page 146
The Double Absence ......Page 147
Anxiety ......Page 148
"the Service Of His Mother" ......Page 150
A Nameable Love ......Page 151
Interpretation Incarnated ......Page 152
Look For The Infantile Neurosis ......Page 155
Piggle And Hans ......Page 156
Pigle Pre-interpreted ......Page 159
The Words Of The Unconscious ......Page 161
The Question Of Transference ......Page 163
"we Girls ..." ......Page 164
The Superego ......Page 168
Winnicott As Interpreter ......Page 169
V Women In Civilization ......Page 172
Hystory ......Page 174
Repercussions Of Science ......Page 175
Today And Tomorrow ......Page 179
11 New Figures Of Woman ......Page 182
Changes Inside-out ......Page 184
The "phallic Recuperation" ......Page 186
Return To Freud's Woman ......Page 187
New Fantasies ......Page 189
New Symptoms ......Page 191
The Aporias Of Sex ......Page 194
Identification Or Sexuation ......Page 195
The Curse ......Page 197
General Perversion Or The Other ......Page 198
Hommosexual Love ......Page 200
New Mores ......Page 202
The Ethic Of The Bachelor ......Page 203
Subscribers To The Homosexual Unconscious ......Page 204
No Sexual Contract ......Page 206
Intensified Foreclosure ......Page 207
The Ethic Of Difference ......Page 209
Again, Why Get Married? ......Page 212
The Claimants Of Love ......Page 218
VI The Curse......Page 224
Male-diction ......Page 226
Figures Of Love ......Page 228
"lofty Deeds" Of Love And News In Brief ......Page 230
Anticipations ......Page 231
Going Astray ......Page 233
Inventory ......Page 234
The Other Who Does Exist ......Page 238
Function Of Love ......Page 239
Doing The Accounts ......Page 242
15 Because Of Jouissances ......Page 246
The Hypothesis Of The Speakingbeing ......Page 247
The Symptom Generalized ......Page 248
The Father As Symptom ......Page 250
Desire For Paternity? ......Page 253
A Woman, Symptom ......Page 256
Getting Jouissance From The Unconscious ......Page 257
The Madness Of Love ......Page 259
Man Ravages ......Page 260
Making Love Absolute ......Page 262
VII Analysis......Page 264
16 Separation Symptom ......Page 266
Freud's Revised Position ......Page 267
Identifying With The Symptom? ......Page 269
Two Identifications Of The End ......Page 271
Without The Other ......Page 273
The Function Of The Symptom ......Page 276
A Symptom In Transference ......Page 277
Believing In It ......Page 279
Loving One's Symptom? ......Page 281
An Atheistic Love ......Page 283
17 Ends... Of Love ......Page 288
The Battle Of Transference ......Page 290
Solutions For Transference Love? ......Page 293
The Two Loves ......Page 295
The Name Of The Symptom ......Page 297
The Prosthesis-symptom ......Page 299
VIII Conclusion......Page 302
Social Effects ......Page 304
In Psychoanalysis ......Page 308
Disparity Of Ends ......Page 309
IX Appendix......Page 312
The Difference Between The Sexes In Analysis ......Page 314
Index ......Page 330
