This book examines how psychoanalysis can meaningfully contribute to contemporary debates in feminism, queer theory, and postcolonial studies. Jan Campbell traces the evolution of psychoanalytic thought and its often-problematic models of subjectivity, particularly as they relate to sexuality, gender, ethnicity, and historical context.
Drawing on the work of thinkers such as Lacan, Irigaray, Kristeva, Dollimore, Bhabha, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker, Campbell positions psychoanalysis as a mediating framework across the human sciences. At the same time, she argues that psychoanalytic theory itself must be rethought and transformed. Rather than fully embracing or dismissing psychoanalysis, the book proposes a re-negotiated understanding of the symbolic order as a necessary and productive intervention within cultural theory.
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| ISBN: 9781856494441 |
| Subtitle: feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory : a psychoanalytic contribution |
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| Subject(s): 155.3; 2000 I-516; BF175.4.F45 C36 2000; Culture; Feminism; Homosexuality; Homosexuality–Philosophy; Postcolonialism; Psychoanalysis And Feminism; Psychoanalytic Theory; WM 460 C188a 2000 |
| Publication Date: 2020-05-01 |
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| Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic |
| Language: English |
| Format: Paperback |
| Pages: 256 |
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| Book_ID: 105746 |