What Lacan Said About Women

A Psychoanalytic Study

Colette Soler, John Holland

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Other Press LLC
15 January 2006

Gender studies: women; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Sexual behaviour

Series: Contemporary Theory

The definitive work on Lacan's theory of the feminine.

With exquisite prose and penetrating insights, Colette Soler shares her theoretical and clinical expertise in this vibrant new text. She spins out seductive explications of Lacan's thought on the controversial question of sexual difference. With the subtlety that these topics deserve, she takes up Lacan's conception of woman and her relation to masochism, femininity and hysteria, love and death, and the impossible sexual relation. Following more than the usual suspects, What Lacan Said About Women also explores the mother's place in the unconscious, how Lacan understands depression, and why depressives feel unloved.

Soler's analysis examines the cultural implications of the texts that Lacan produced from the 1950s to the 1970s, such as the effects of science on contemporary conceptions of the feminine. She gracefully bridges the gap still left open between psychoanalysis and cultural studies. Winner of the Prix Psyche for the best work published in the fields of psychology and psychoanalysis in 2003, this book will appeal to cultural critics, especially those in gender and women's studies, as well as to anyone involved in contemporary theory or clinical practice. This study will transform novices within the field of Lacanian theory into informed thinkers and it will substantially supplement and refine the knowledge of Lacanian veterans.

By: Colette Soler
Translated by: John Holland
Imprint: Other Press LLC
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 439g
ISBN: 9781590511701
ISBN 10: 1590511700
Series: Contemporary Theory
Pages: 334
Publication Date: 15 January 2006
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Colette Soler An analysand of Jacques Lacan's, Colette Soler is a psychoanalyst practicing in Paris. She was a member of the Ecole freudienne de Paris until its dissolution, and then of the Ecole de la cause freudienne. John Holland John Holland has a doctorate in English and American literature from Princeton University and teaches at the University of Grenoble II.

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