Sex for Structuralists (eBook)

The Non-Oedipal Logics of Femininity and Psychosis

Shanna de la Torre (Autor)

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2018 | 1st ed. 2018
VIII, 134 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-92895-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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 Lévi-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.

Shanna de la Torre is a social worker in practice in Minnesota, USA. She received her MSW from the University of Minnesota and her PhD in Romance Studies from Cornell University, USA. Her writings have appeared in differences: A Feminist Journal of Cultural Studies, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Transgender Studies Reader, Volume 2, and TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 

Inhalt

1. The Criteria of the Future2. Primal Scene, Ground Zero: Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, and the Wolf Man beyond the Seduction3. Madness and the Sensitive Anthropologist: Lévi-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?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.8.2018
• Zusatzinfo: VIII, 134 p. 1 illus.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Claude Lévi-Strauss • Comparative Literature • Gender Studies • Jacques Lacan • Lacanian psychoanalysis • LGBTQ Studies • Oedipal Logics • Philosophy • Psychoanalysis • Queer Studies • Sexual behaviour • Sexuality Studies • Sigmund Freud • Structuralism
• ISBN-10: 3-319-92895-3 / 3319928953
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-92895-1 / 9783319928951