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The Interpretation of the Flesh - Freud and Femininity (Hardcover, New)
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The Interpretation of the Flesh - Freud and Femininity (Hardcover, New)
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The "riddle of femininity," like Freud's reference to women's
sexuality as a "dark continent," has been treated as a romantic
aside or a sexist evasion rather than as a problem to be solved.
"The Interpretation of the Flesh," the first comprehensive study
of Freud's theory of femininity, concludes that this riddle can
indeed be answered. Teresa Brennan argues that the solution to
Freud's "riddle of femininity" entails a different approach to mind
and flesh, ideas and matter, from that traditionally mooted by
Freudian studies. She states that the riddle can only be solved
once outdated assumptions of the dualism of mind versus body are
discarded--and such assumptions can only be discarded by a theory
that goes beyond biological reductionism. Freud himself laid the
basis for overcoming this dualism (although rejected up until now),
and it is by overcoming it that the "riddle of femininity" becomes
a soluble one.
"The Interpretation of the Flesh" offers a new way of thinking
about the relation between the psychical, the social, and the
physical, pointing out that the real riddle of femininity is
primarily a problem for women suffering from what Freud described
as "femininity's" negative effects on curiosity, intelligence and
activity.
"The Interpretation of the Flesh" is relevant to all the debates
on psychoanalysis and feminism. It is an important work for serious
study in feminism, psychoanalysis, and the philosophy of science,
and is invaluable for anyone interested in the ongoing feminist
struggle.
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