From one of our most outspoken feminist critics, this collection explores various ways in which the body can be rethought of as a site of knowledge rather than as a medium to move beyond or dominate. Moving between a theoretical and confessional stance, Gallop explores Sade's relation to mothers both in his novels and his life; Barthe's The Pleasure of the Text; Freud's work, read not as a psychological text but as a literary endeavor and from a woman's point of view; and Luce Irigarary's famous This Sex Which Is Not One.

Thinking Through the Body

Literature & Fiction

Gallop, Jane

History & Criticism

Columbia University Press

Feminism and Psychoanalysis: The Daughter's Seduction (Language, Discourse, Society)

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Feminism and Psychoanalysis: The Daughter’s Seduction (Language, Discourse, Society)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Around 1981 (Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature)

Jane Gallop’s book offers a clear-eyed and comprehensive history of feminist literary criticism. Why, she asks, have we so quickly buried 1970s feminist criticism? What lies buried there? Why do 1990s academic feminists accuse other academic feminists of being ‘academic’? Gallop takes the novel approach of structuring her inquiry around anthologies of feminist criticism: twelve important texts that have had a wide impact on more than a decade of scholarship. In reading an anthology as a whole, she typically identifies a central, hegemonic voice (usually that of the editor/s) which would organise all the voices into a unity, and then explores the resistance within that volume to such a unity. Weight is placed behind these internal differences as a wedge against the centrist drive. Around 1981 addresses briefly ‘french feminism’ and psychoanalytic feminism before focusing on its principal subject: the mainstream of feminist literary criticism, before and after its general acceptance as part of the changing institution of literary studies. This brilliantly illuminates the dilemma of the feminist critic, divided by her allegiance to both feminism and literary studies.

Around 1981: Academic Feminist Literary Theory (Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature)

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Routledge

Around 1981: Academic Feminist Literary Theory

"Around 1981" is a lucid and comprehensive history of feminist literary criticism. Jane Gallop structures her inquiry around anthologies of feminist criticism: twelve important texts that have had a wide impact on more than a decade of scholarship. Gallop is one of the strongest writers in the current pantheon of feminist critics: often sharply critical, and sometimes hilariously funny. "Around 1981" addresses French feminism and psychoanalytic feminism as well as the mainstream of American feminist literary criticism. The book illuminates the dilemma of the feminist critic, divided by her allegiance to both feminism and literary studies.

"Around 1981" is a lucid and comprehensive history of feminist literary criticism. Jane Gallop structures her inquiry around anthologies of feminist criticism: twelve important texts that have had a wide impact on more than a decade of scholarship. Gallop is one of the strongest writers in the current pantheon of feminist critics: often sharply critical, and sometimes hilariously funny. "Around 1981" addresses French feminism and psychoanalytic feminism as well as the mainstream of American feminist literary criticism. The book illuminates the dilemma of the feminist critic, divided by her allegiance to both feminism and literary studies.

The Daughter's Seduction examines the relation between contemporary feminism and the psychoanalytical theories of Jacques Lacan. Through readings of the major texts that stand at the intersection of French psychoanalysis and feminism, it confronts, boldly and directly, such topics as sexual difference, desire, reading. writing. power. family. phallocentrism, and language. In doing so, Jane Gallup not only illuminates current French psychoanalytic and feminist thinking, but also explores contemporary American and British thought.... Gallop begins by questioning a number of feminist assumptions, through the agency of Lacanian psychoanalysis, and ends by using feminist writing to question certain psychoanalytic positions. In the course of the book, the reader watches and participates in a complex seduction as feminism (the daughter) gives up her resistance to psychoanalysis (the father). The father in turn surrenders his impassive self-mastery and betrays his desires. Renouncing their familial roles of daughter and father, they may be able to escape the vicious circle in which they have been imprisoned. --- excerpts from book's dustjacket

The Daughter's Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis

Cornell Univ Pr

The influence of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan has extended into nearly every field of the humanities and social sciences―from literature and film studies to anthropology and social work. yet Lacan's major text, Ecrits, continues to perplex and even baffle its readers. In Reading Lacan, Jane Gallop offers a novel approach to Lacan's work based on his own theories of language.
Lacan locates truth in the letter rather than in the spirit-in the ways statements are expressed rather than in their intended meaning. Gallop here grapples with six of Lacan's essays from Ecrits: "The Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter,' " "The Mirror Stage," "The Freudian Thing,'' "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious,'' "The Signification of the Phallus," and "The Subversion of the Subject." While other commentators have chosen not to confront Lacan's notoriously problematic style in their discussions of his ideas, Gallop addresses herself directly to the problem and the practice of reading Lacan. She takes her direction from Lacan's view of subjectivity and offers a deeply personal, feminist reading of Ecrits. Concentrating on the relation of desire and interpretation, she opens up the rich implications of Lacan's thought, for psychoanalytic theory, for the act of reading, and for knowledge itself.
Forceful and revealing, yet utterly candid about its own areas of uncertainty, Gallop's book will be indispensable to readers of Lacan and to scholars and students who have felt his impact.

Reading Lacan

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Cornell University Press

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Thinking Through the Body

Thinking Through the Body

Feminism and Psychoanalysis: The Daughter's Seduction (Language, Discourse, Society)

Feminism and Psychoanalysis: The Daughter’s Seduction (Language, Discourse, Society)

Around 1981: Academic Feminist Literary Theory (Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature)

Around 1981 (Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature)

Around 1981: Academic Feminist Literary Theory

Around 1981: Academic Feminist Literary Theory

The Daughter's Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis

Reading Lacan