Sex for structuralists : the non-Oedipal logics of femininity and psychosis
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Sex for structuralists : the non-Oedipal logics of femininity and psychosis
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book argues that structuralism makes itself useful when it engages with the non-Oedipal logics of femininity and psychosis. Building from the psychoanalytic belief that norms repress unconscious desire while structures open onto the creative resources of the symbolic, Sex for Structuralists looks to key texts in myth, trauma, and unconscious fantasy by Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and Claude Levi-Strauss. It also examines innovative writings by contemporary Lacanian thinkers in order to discover what becomes of structuralism when the ground upon which it ostensibly stands (namely, that of the zero symbol or the incest prohibition) drops out from under it.
Table of Contents
1. The Criteria of the Future2. Primal Scene, Ground Zero: Levi-Strauss, Lacan, and the Wolf Man beyond the Seduction3. Madness and the Sensitive Anthropologist: Levi-Strauss's New Structuralism4. Two Traumas, Not One: The Feminine in Myth5. The Mythologist's Aesthetic Task: Amelia6. Sex for Structuralists: From Myth to Fantasy7. How Do We Use Structuralism?
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