What does a woman want?
Book Details
- Publisher : The Other Press
- Published : January 1999
- Category :
Lacanian Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 8491
- ISBN 13 : 9781892746283
- ISBN 10 : 189274628X
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In this highly original and subtle comparison of Freud and Lacan, the author brilliantly illuminates the forward evolution of Freud's thinking on feminine sexuality and the ways in which Lacan traces his own path backwards from the later Freud to the earlier theories, to find his notion of the difference between phallic jouissance and the "feminine" jouissance of the Other. 350 pages.
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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.
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