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The Castration of Oedipus - Joseph C. Smith, Carla J. Ferstman

The Castration of Oedipus

Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and Feminism
Buch | Softcover
328 Seiten
1996
New York University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8147-8019-0 (ISBN)
CHF 46,90 inkl. MwSt
The intellectual movements of psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and feminism have redefined the ways in which we think about human experience. And yet, an integration of these movements has been elusive, if not impossible. In this landmark book, J.C. Smith and Carla J. Ferstman combine these disparate traditions to create a provocative, unified, and tightly woven perspective that transcends the misogyny implicit in much of Freudian psychoanalytic theory.

The dialectics of domination and submission are central to Smith and Ferstman's argument. Men and women, they insist, must avoid the temptation to fetishize equality and recognize the roles of domination and submission in the human psyche, or, in Nietzsche's terms, the Will to Power. They argue that the unification of psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and feminism leads us to a shocking conclusion--that women and men cannot move beyond the suffering which so haunts the human condition, unless heterosexual men surrender the power that is causing their misery and affirm life by joyfully accepting domination by women. And women, conversely, must reaffirm their power by rejecting Oedipal genderization and embracing a liberating matriarchal consciousness and a matriphallic sexuality.

A work of tremendous insight and extraordinary intellectual energy, The Castration of Oedipus will provoke strong reactions in all readers regardless of ideology.

J.C. Smith is Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia, and the author of Psychoanalytic Roots of Patriarchy: The Neurotic Foundations of Social Order, also from NYU Press. Carla J. Ferstman is Associate Counsel at the firm of Bolton and Muldoon.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.3.1996
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 426 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sexualität / Partnerschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8147-8019-9 / 0814780199
ISBN-13 978-0-8147-8019-0 / 9780814780190
Zustand Neuware
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