In this landmark collection of original essays, outstanding feminist critics in Britain, France, and the United States present new perspectives on feminism and psychoanalysis, opening out deadlocked debates. The discussion ranges widely, with contributions from feminists identified with different, often opposed views on psychoanalytic criticism. The contributors reassess the history of Lacanian psychoanalysis and feminism, and explore the significance of its institutional context. They write against the received views on 'French feminism' and essentialism. A remarkable restatement of current positions within (...) psychoanalysis and feminism, the volume as a whole will change the terms of existing debates, and make its arguments and concerns more generally accessible. (shrink)

Expone las teorias que pretenden explicar la psicologia de la desigualdad sexual y de la subordinacion social de la mujer frente al hombre. Las teorias psicoanaliticas ayudan especialmente a tomar conciencia de la contradiccion que experimentan las mujeres al resistirse a la dominancia del hombre y de las patologias que puede producir. Basandose en el psicoanalisis, el objetivo del feminismo es el cambio de las condiciones sociales que produce esta situacion de contradiccion en la mujer, a traves de la organizacion (...) colectiva. (shrink)