Sex for Structuralists
Download or Read eBook Sex for Structuralists PDF written by Shanna de la Torre and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Shanna de la Torre |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 140 |
| Release | : 2018-08-03 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9783319928951 |
| ISBN-13 | : 3319928953 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Sex for Structuralists by : Shanna de la Torre
Book excerpt: 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.
