Mitchell Juliet Editor (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. With the '1' in a number line. Edited by Juliet Mitchell and Jacqueline Rose. First translation of thse writings by Lacan. With an extensive bibliography of Lacan's work and an index. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked. archival Mylar jacket cover included. …

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 256 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 291 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Ex library hardback with DJ; usual stamps/markings. Published in 1982 by The MacMillan Press, London. Some very minor highlighting & DJ little grubby otherwise a good, clean copy. Ready for immediate despatch from Uk. 4F*.

Paperback glossy. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Reprint. A near fine glossy paperback, 1st reprint. transl ator: Rose, Jacqueline. Jacques Lacan is arguably the most controversial psychoanalyst of our time. Psychoanalysis is certainly one of the most contested areas of debate within feminism. This book presents articles on feminine sexuality by Lacan and members of the ÃÂ cole freudienne, the school of psychoanalysis that Lacan directed in Paris from 1964 to 1980. The question of feminine sexuality has divided the psychoanalytic movement since the 1920s. Despite their opposition to each other, contemporary psychoanalysis and feminism both reject Freud's phallocentrism. This book forcefully reasserts the importance of the castration complex in Freud's work and of the phallus in the work of Lacan, offering them not as a reflection of a theory based on male supremacy and privilege but as the terms through which any such privilege is exposed as a fraud. Lacan's rereading of Freud is seen here to reveal, in a way that no other account has been able to do, the arbitrary and fictional nature of both male and female sexual identity and, specifically, the fantasy behind the category "woman" as the dominant fetish of our culture. These texts reveal that women constantly exceed the barriers of the definition to which they are confined.…