By Todd Dufresne
Making a photograph of present wondering psychoanalysis, this energetic assortment examines the legacy of Freud and Lacan. via provocative and penetrating arguments, the participants take psychoanalysis to job for 0ts darkish view of human nature, theoretical sorcery, devaluation of femininity, self-referentiality, discipleship, negativity, lack of information of background and more.
The essays additionally learn the advanced relationships among Freudian and Lacanian thought and philosophy, feminism, anthropology, communications thought, deconstruction, Foucauldian family tree and scientific background. the exceptional record of individuals contains Paul Roazen, Francois Roustang, John Forrester, Rodolphe Gasche, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen and Jacques Derrida.
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But it is one thing to observe and another to interpret, that is, to attribute to sexual instincts a development that is no longer sexual. Development cannot be the cause of the transformation, for it would then be necessary that development be the cause of development. One sees then that it is the doctrine that is to be questioned, the doctrine that seeks the origin of every thing in the sexual instinct. We cannot help but ask ourselves if we are not in the presence of a sleight of hand, of faulty reasoning, or of a lack of basic logic.
First, she argues that Freud explicitly addresses himself to a “ mixed public” : “ Ladies and Gentlemen . . ” Sec ond, she agues that Freud is trying to “ establish complicity with the women ana lysts so as to clear himself of the suspicion of ‘antifeminism’ ” (Kofman 1985: 104). Third, she argues that Freud cannot be excluding women because to do so he would have to assume that women are the opposite of men, which is what Freud is argu ing against with his bisexuality thesis— Freud claims that all humans, especially women, are innately bisexual, both masculine and feminine.
She has published numerous articles on continental phi losophy and feminism, focussing on the work of Derrida, Heidegger, Kristeva, and Levinas, and is the author of Ethics of Eros: Irigaray's Rewriting of the Philosophers (Routledge, 1995). 1 The degree to which the phallus as master-signifier is separable from the penis as its bodily referent provides an index of the legitimacy of Lacanian psychoanalytic discourse for feminists of divergent theoretical and political persuasions. The greater the distance that is assured between penis and phallus, it would seem, the more feminism can afford to entertain psychoanalytic hypotheses without fear that they will revert in the last analysis to biological determinism.