Charts the intersection of feminism and psychoanalysis via a number of domains which establish crucial themes and allow theory and practice to work upon each other.
Questions the role of psychoanalysis in enabling women to challenge the forms of representation that constrain and oppress them.

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Wright is Lecturer and Fellow in German at Girton College, Cambridge. Her main work has been in psychoanalytic literary criticism and she has written extensively in this area. Her books include Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practice (1984) and Postmodern Brecht: A Re-Presentation (1989). Advisory Editors: Dianne Chisholm , Assistant Professor of English, University of Alberta. Juliet Flower MacCannel l, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine. Margaret Whitford , Reader in French, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. Klappentext Feminism and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Dictionary is of major interest to those who are aware of the breadth of its two component areas, and wish to explore the common ground between them more intensively. Entries deal with concepts from and significant figures in psychoanalysis, issues of sexual politics that intersect with psychoanalysis, feminist aesthetics and criticism which both use and challenge psychoanalytic thought. Each entry concludes with a short, carefully selected list of further reading. Zusammenfassung aeo Charts the intersection of feminism and psychoanalysis via a number of domains which establish crucial themes and allow theory and practice to work upon each other. aeo Questions the role of psychoanalysis in enabling women to challenge the forms of representation that constrain and oppress them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Dictionary Entries A-Z. Index.

Autorentext

Elizabeth Wright is Lecturer and Fellow in German at Girton College, Cambridge. Her main work has been in psychoanalytic literary criticism and she has written extensively in this area. Her books include Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practice (1984) and Postmodern Brecht: A Re-Presentation (1989). Advisory Editors:

Dianne Chisholm, Assistant Professor of English, University of Alberta.

Juliet Flower MacCannell, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine.

Margaret Whitford, Reader in French, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.

Klappentext

Feminism and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Dictionary is of major interest to those who are aware of the breadth of its two component areas, and wish to explore the common ground between them more intensively.

Entries deal with concepts from and significant figures in psychoanalysis, issues of sexual politics that intersect with psychoanalysis, feminist aesthetics and criticism which both use and challenge psychoanalytic thought. Each entry concludes with a short, carefully selected list of further reading.

Inhalt

Introduction. Dictionary Entries A-Z.

Index.