Whether you agree with Smith and Ferstman or not, this book will
provoke you to think. And that may be its biggest contribution
after all.
--Professor Stephen TaubeneckUniversity of British Columbia
J.C. Smith and Carla J. Ferstman have collaborated on a project
that shamelessly completes the incomplete work of Nietzsche, Freud,
Lacan, and Derrida. They insist on a radical social, psychical, and
political transformation of conventional feminism.
--Professor Henry Kariel, Author of The Desperate Politics of
Postmodernism
The intellectual movements of psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and
feminism have redefined the ways in which we think about human
experience. And yet, an integration of these movements has been
elusive, if not impossible. In this landmark book, J.C. Smith and
Carla J. Ferstman combine these disparate traditions to create a
provocative, unified, and tightly woven perspective that transcends
the misogyny implicit in much of Freudian psychoanalytic
theory.
The dialectics of domination and submission are central to Smith
and Ferstman's argument. Men and women, they insist, must avoid the
temptation to fetishize equality and recognize the roles of
domination and submission in the human psyche, or, in Nietzsche's
terms, the Will to Power. They argue that the unification of
psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and feminism leads us to a shocking
conclusion--that women and men cannot move beyond the suffering
which so haunts the human condition, unless heterosexual men
surrender the power that is causing their misery and affirm life by
joyfully accepting domination by women. And women, conversely, must
reaffirm their power by rejecting Oedipal genderization
andembracing a liberating matriarchal consciousness and a
matriphallic sexuality.
A work of tremendous insight and extraordinary intellectual
energy, The Castration of Oedipus will provoke strong reactions in
all readers regardless of ideology.
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