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Zusatztext "A miraculous answer to the confusions surrounding Freud's and Lacan's theory of feminine sexuality. . . . A must for anyone who wants to grasp what psychoanalysis has to say today." -Slavoj Zizek Informationen zum Autor Paul Verhaeghe Paul Verhaeghe is senior professor at the University of Ghent (Belgium) and head of the Department for Psychoanalysis and Counseling Psychology. He teaches clinical psychodiagnostics and psychoanalytic psychotherapy and works as a psychoanalyst in private practice as well. He is the author of Does the Woman Exist? (1999) and On Being Normal and Other Disorders (2004)! which won the Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship! all available from Other Press. Zusammenfassung This book describes how Freud attempted to chart hysteria! yet came to a standstill at the problem of woman and her desire! and of how Lacan continued along this road by creating new conceptual tools. The difficulties and upsets encountered by both men are examined. This lucid presentation of the dialectical process that carries Lacan through the evolution of Freud’s thought offers profound insights into the place of the “feminine mystique” in our social fabric. Patiently and carefully! Verhaeghe applies the Lacanian grid to Freud’s text and succeeds in explaining Lacan’s formulations without merely recapitulating his theories. The reader is informed! along the way! not only of Lacan’s take on Freudian ideas! but also of the array of interpretations emerging from other trends in post-Freudian literature! including feminist revisionism.
