Toward a Feminist Lacanian Left - Psychoanalytic Theory and Intersectional Politics

While traditional feminist readings on antagonism have pivoted around the sole axis of sex and/or gender, a broader and intersectional approach to antagonism is much needed; this book offers an innovative, feminist, and discursive reading on the Lacanian concept of Sexual Position.

List of contents

Part 1: Toward a Feminist Lacanian Left 1. Reality as a Discursive Operation 2. The Topology of Reality 3. A Lacanian Theory of Discursive Ontology 4. Traversing Fantasy 5. Towards a Topology of Reality 6. The Void: Ciphering the Real as Reality Part 2: Some Notes for a Genealogy of Sexuation 7. The Sexuation of the Ontological Level 8. The Masculine Hegemony of Reality 9. Ciphering the Feminine

About the author

Alicia Valdés works as an associate lecturer at the University of Barcelona and research technician at Rovira I Virgili University in Spain.

Summary

While traditional feminist readings on antagonism have pivoted around the sole axis of sex and/or gender, a broader and intersectional approach to antagonism is much needed; this book offers an innovative, feminist, and discursive reading on the Lacanian concept of Sexual Position.

Product details

• Authors: Alicia (Rovira I Virgili University Valdes, Alicia (Universitat De Barcelona Valdes, Alicia Valdés
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780367765712
• ISBN: 978-0-367-76571-2
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: The Lines of the Symbolic in Psychoanalysis Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Cultural Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Anthropology, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Feminism & feminist theory, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis