Download e-book for iPad: What Lacan Said About Women: A Psychoanalytic Study by Colette Soler, John Holland, Frances Restuccia
By Colette Soler, John Holland, Frances Restuccia
ISBN-10: 1590511700
ISBN-13: 9781590511701
The definitive paintings on Lacan's thought of the feminine.With beautiful prose and penetrating insights, Colette Soler stocks her theoretical and medical services during this vivid new textual content. She spins out seductive explications of Lacan's concept at the arguable query of sexual distinction. With the subtlety that those subject matters deserve, she takes up Lacan's belief of girl and her relation to masochism, femininity and hysteria, love and demise, and the very unlikely sexual relation. Following greater than the standard suspects, What Lacan acknowledged approximately Women additionally explores the mother's position within the subconscious, how Lacan is familiar with melancholy, and why depressives consider unloved.
Soler's research examines the cultural implications of the texts that Lacan made out of the Nineteen Fifties to the Nineteen Seventies, resembling the results of technology on modern conceptions of the female. She gracefully bridges the space nonetheless left open among psychoanalysis and cultural stories. Winner of the Prix Psyche for the easiest paintings released within the fields of psychology and psychoanalysis in 2003, this ebook will entice cultural critics, specifically these in gender and women's experiences, in addition to to a person concerned with modern thought or medical perform. This research will rework beginners in the box of Lacanian idea into knowledgeable thinkers and it'll considerably complement and refine the data of Lacanian veterans.