Lacan and Critical Feminism

This book takes a critical feminist approach to Lacan's fundamental concepts, merging discourse and sexuation theories in a novel way for both psychoanalysis and feminism, and exploring the possibility of a feminist subject within a non-masculine logic.

Rahna McKey Carusi, educational developer in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Digital Innovation at Massey University, New Zealand.

Preface Acknowledgments 1: Introduction 2: A (re)turn to Lacan QUILTING POINT: A literary discussion on metaphor and metonymy 3: The troped body 4: The materiality of the letter QUILTING POINT: I AM A MAN and the essence of Woman 5: Woman as metonymy: or, I am not your manqué l'être QUILTING POINT: The masculine symptom in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 6: Jouissance and ethical extimacy 7: Myth, truth, and non-phallic sexuation QUILTING POINT: Tapping into excess, or the feminist trilogies 8: The dethroning of the father Works cited Index