The Psyche of Feminism : Sand, Colette, Sarraute Paperback / softback
by Catherine M. Peebles
Part of the Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures series
Paperback / softback
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The Psyche of Feminism argues that a feminist ethics, in order to be both feminist and ethical, needs to embrace psychoanalysis.
After reviewing the relation between feminism and psychoanalysis and arguing for the centrality of psychoanalysis to feminist thought, the study offers an analysis of two attempts by George Sand to reimagine the sexual relationship (Letters to Marcie, Lelia), where the emphasis is on political injustice and the impossibility of women's desires.
Moving from rights and desires to the question of pleasures, Peebles then takes up a relatively little-read work by Colette, The Pure and the Impure, in which the narrator suggests that pleasure and its corporeal language hold the key to any understanding of masculinity and femininity.
We are then led to the risky question of ""neutrality"" put forward by Nathalie Sarraute ( You Don't Love Yourself ), whose work forces a psychoanalytic feminism to face the question: what if sexual difference itself is a ruse?
Does the notion of a human neutrality condemn us either to a bygone humanism or to psychosis?
The final chapter of the work synthesizes these analyses, and argues for a fundamental feminist rethinking of the ideal of equality, an ideal that figures significantly—and uneasily—in each of the works this book treats.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Purdue University Press
- Publication Date:30/12/2003
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- ISBN:9781557533296
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Purdue University Press
- Publication Date:30/12/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9781557533296
