What Does a Woman Want?

Reading and Sexual Difference
Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-0-8018-4620-5
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 245 g

'What does a woman want?'—the question Freud famously formulated in a letter to Marie Bonaparte—is a quintessentially male question that arises from women's resistance to their place in a patriarchal society. But what might it mean, asks Shoshana Felman, for a woman to reclaim this question as her own? Can this question engender, through the literary or the psychoanalytic work, a woman's voice as its speaking subject? Felman explores these questions through close readings of autobiographical texts by Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, and Adrienne Rich which attempt to redefine women as the subject of their own desire.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Felman, Shoshana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. What Does a Women Want? The Question of Autobiography and the Bond of Reading
Chapter 2. Women and Madness: The Critical Phallacy
Chapter 3. Textuality and the Riddle of Bisexuality
Chapter 4. Competing Pregnancies: The Dream from which Psychoanalysis Proceeds
Chapter 5. With Whom Do You Believe Your Lot is Cast? Woolfe, de Beauvoir, Rich and the Struggle for Autobiography
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Felman, Shoshana
Shoshana Felman is Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her many books include Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading: Otherwise, Jacques Lacan and the Adventures of Insight Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture, and Writing and Madnes.