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 and
embracing 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.
General
Imprint: |
New York University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 1996 |
First published: |
March 1996 |
Authors: |
Joseph C. Smith
• Carla J. Ferstman
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade / Trade
|
Pages: |
328 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8147-8019-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Psychology >
Sexual behaviour
|
LSN: |
0-8147-8019-9 |
Barcode: |
9780814780190 |
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