What does a woman want?
Book Details
- Publisher : The Other Press
- Published : 1999
- Category :
Lacanian Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 8491
- ISBN 13 : 9781892746283
- ISBN 10 : 189274628X
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What does a woman want? She wants the truth. In his subtle and highly original comparison of Freud and Lacan, Serge André explains why, and helps us to make sense of what Freud and Lacan said about female sexuality. Embracing as "feminine" that which cannot be signified, André shows how psychoanalytic practice allows a subject to confront the lack that constitutes his or her knowledge of femininity. This is how the truth of the (female) being who incarnates that lack can be revealed.
A major contribution in its own right, this book shows how clinical psychoanalysis can explore a woman's struggle with her paradoxical position as both a necessarily castrated subject and, at the same time, the irreducible mystery of the "not-all," the unknowable gap in the Other.