Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the école freudienne

by Jacques Lacan

Genres: Feminism, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Theory

187 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1982

About the author

Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan was a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor, who made prominent contributions to the psychoanalytic movement. His yearly seminars, conducted in Paris from 1953 until his death in 1981, were a major influence in the French intellectual milieu of the 1960s and 1970s, particularly among post-structuralist thinkers.

Lacan's ideas centered on Freudian concepts such as the unconscious, the castration complex, the ego, focusing on identifications, and the centrality of language to subjectivity. His work was interdisciplinary, drawing on linguistics, philosophy, mathematics, amongst others. Although a controversial and divisive figure, Lacan is widely read in critical theory, literary studies, and twentieth-century French philosophy, as well as in the living practice of clinical psychoanalysis.

Reviews

[Jacob · Rating 4 out of 5]

Its significance has dimmed in the past two decades with the arrival of better and more complete translations, but the editors' introductory essays, and the reading list they've created for us, still have plenty value.

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Returning to this after twenty-some years. My five stars also meaning to praise Jacqueline Rose--her introduction here having helped me discover the rest of her work.

[Justine Cheng · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mary Ann recommended the Jacqueline rose intro and it really is one of the best intros to lacan. Much better than zizek

[Eryk Salvaggio · Rating 3 out of 5]

Requires a bit of The Ticklish Subject (Zizek) to really make sense of this. Not exactly the anti-feminist screed that some people seem to suggest, (especially when interpreted through Zizek). I liked it enough to read Miranda July through it and found it made some sense.