Moving backwards or forwards / Jane Gallop -- Still crazy after all these years / Rachel Bowlby -- The politics of impenetrability / Lisa Jardine -- Notes for an analysis / Alice Jardine -- The politics of ontological difference / Rosi Braidotti -- Rereading Irigaray / Margaret Whitford -- The gesture in psychoanalysis / Luce Irigaray -- Thoroughly postmodern feminist criticism / Elizabeth Wright -- 'Their "symbolic" exists, it holds power -- we, the sowers of disorder, know it only too well' / Morag Shiach -- Echo and narcissus / Naomi Segal -- Patriarchal thought and the drive for knowledge / Toril Moi -- Feminism and deconstruction, again / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Cutting up / Joan Copjec -- Of femal bondage / Parveen Adams.
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In this landmark collection of original essays, outstanding feminist critics in Britain, France, and the United States present new perspectives on feminism and psychoanalysis, opening out deadlocked debates. The discussion ranges widely, with contributions from feminists identified with different, often opposed views on psychoanalytic criticism. The contributors reassess the history of Lacanian psychoanalysis and feminism, and explore the significance of its institutional context. They write against the received views on 'French feminism' and essentialism. A remarkable restatement of current positions within psychoanalysis and feminism, the volume as a whole will change the terms of existing debates, and make its arguments and concerns more generally accessible.